Protecting Access To Your Wireless-N Modem Router; Changing The Administrator Password - NETGEAR WNR612v2 User Manual

Wireless-N 150 Router WNR612v2 User Manual

Protecting Access to Your Wireless-N Modem Router

For security reasons, the wireless router has its own user name and password. Also, after a
period of inactivity for a set length of time, the login automatically disconnects. You can use
the following procedures to change the wireless router's password and the period for the
administrator's login time-out.
The user name and password are not the same as any other user
Note:
name or password your might 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 case and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols. Your password
can be up to 30 characters.

Changing the Administrator Password

In the main menu, under Maintenance, select Set Password.
1.
To change the password, first enter the old password, and then enter the new password
2.
twice.
Click Apply to save your changes.
3.
After changing the password, you are required to log in again to
Note:
continue the configuration. If you have backed up the wireless router
settings previously, you should do a new backup so that the saved
settings file includes the new password.
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