Remote Management After A Reset; Url To Connect To The Gateway - NETGEAR CG2003D User Manual

Be sure to change the gateway's remote management password to a very secure
password before enabling remote management. The ideal password should contain
no dictionary words from any language, and should be a mixture of letters (both upper
and lower case), numbers, and symbols. Your password can be up to 16 characters.
Port Number. Specify the port number that will be used for accessing the
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management interface. The default port number is 80.
Web browser access normally uses the standard HTTP service port 80. For greater
security, you can change the remote management Web interface to a custom port by
entering that number in the box provided. Choose a number between 1024 and
65535, but do not use the number of any common service port. The default is 8080,
which is a common alternate for HTTP.
Click Apply to save your changes.
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Remote Management After a Reset

If you would like to erase settings but continue to allow access from the WAN after the
settings have been erased, select the Allow Remote Management after Factory Default
Reset check box under "Revert to factory default settings" in the Remote Management
screen. Then, click Erase.
CAUTION:
Do not attempt to go online, turn off the gateway, shut down the computer,
or do anything else to the gateway until the gateway finishes restarting.
When the test light turns off, wait a few more seconds before you do
anything with the gateway.
After you have erased the gateway's current settings, the gateway's password is password,
the LAN IP address is 192.168.0.1, the gateway functions as a DHCP server on the LAN, and
as a DHCP client to the Internet.

URL to Connect to The Gateway

To manage the gateway via the Internet, you need its public IP address, as seen from the
Internet. This public IP address is allocated by your ISP, and is shown under "IP Address to
connect this device" in the Remote Management screen. Note that if your ISP account uses a
dynamic IP address instead of a fixed IP address, the address can change each time you
connect to your ISP. There are two solutions for this issue:
Be sure that your ISP allocates a fixed IP address for the gateway.
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Use the Dynamic DNS feature so you can connect using a domain name, rather than an
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IP address. See
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on page 40.
Dynamic DNS