Protecting Your Network; Protecting Access To Your Dg834 Adsl Firewall Router; How To Change The Built-In Password - NETGEAR DG834 ADSL Firewall Router DG834 DG834 Reference Manual

This chapter describes how to use the basic firewall features of the DG834 ADSL Firewall Router
to protect your network.

Protecting Access to Your DG834 ADSL Firewall Router

For security reasons, the router has its own user name and password. Also, after a period of
inactivity for a set length of time, the administrator login will automatically disconnect. When
prompted, enter admin for the router User Name and password for the router Password. You can
use procedures below to change the router's password and the amount of time for the
administrator's login timeout.
Note: The user name and password are not the same as any user name or password your may use
to log in to your Internet connection.
NETGEAR recommends that you change this password to a more secure password. The ideal
password should contain no dictionary words from any language, and should be a mixture of both
upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols. Your password can be up to 30 characters.

How to Change the Built-In Password

Log in to the router at its default LAN address of
1.
of admin, default password of password, or using whatever Password and LAN address you
have chosen for the router.
Figure 4-1: Log in to the router
From the Main Menu of the browser interface, under the Maintenance heading, select Set
2.
Password to bring up the menu shown in

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http://192.168.0.1
Figure 4-2.
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with its default User Name
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