Good Habits For Managing The Wap6405; Resetting The Wap6405; Procedure To Use The Reset Button; The Wps Button - ZyXEL Communications WAP6405 User Manual

• WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) button. You can use the WPS button or the WPS section of the Web
Configurator to set up a wireless network with your WAP6405.

1.4 Good Habits for Managing the WAP6405

Do the following things regularly to make the WAP6405 more secure and to manage the WAP6405
more effectively.
• Change the password. Use a password that's not easy to guess and that consists of different
types of characters, such as numbers and letters.
• Write down the password and put it in a safe place.
• Back up the configuration (and make sure you know how to restore it). Restoring an earlier
working configuration may be useful if the device becomes unstable or even crashes. If you
forget your password, you will have to reset the WAP6405 to its factory default settings. If you
backed up an earlier configuration file, you would not have to totally re-configure the WAP6405.
You could simply restore your last configuration.

1.5 Resetting the WAP6405

If you forget your password or IP address, or you cannot access the Web Configurator, you will need
to use the RESET button at the back of the WAP6405 to reload the factory-default configuration
file. This means that you will lose all configurations that you had previously saved, the password
will be reset to "1234" and the WAP6405 will be reset to obtain an IP address from a DHCP server.

1.5.1 Procedure to Use the Reset Button

Make sure the power LED is on.
1
Press the RESET button for one to five seconds to reboot the WAP6405.
2
Press the RESET button for longer than five seconds to set the WAP6405 back to its factory-default
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configurations.

1.6 The WPS Button

You can use the WPS button on the back panel of the WAP6405 as a push button, to activate WPS
in order to quickly set up a wireless network with strong security.
Make sure the power LED is on (not blinking).
1
Press the WPS button for more than three seconds and release it. Press the WPS button on another
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WPS-enabled device within range of the WAP6405.
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