Good Habits For Managing The Nbg7815; Resetting The Nbg7815; How To Use The Reset Button; The Wps Button - ZyXEL Communications ARMOR G5 User Manual

1.4 Good Habits for Managing the NBG7815

Do the following things regularly to make the NBG7815 more secure and to manage the NBG7815 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 NBG7815 to its factory default settings. If you backed up an
earlier configuration file, you would not have to totally re-configure the NBG7815. You could simply
restore your last configuration.

1.5 Resetting the NBG7815

If you forget your password or IP address, or you cannot access the Web Configurator, insert a thin
object into the Reset hole on the side of the NBG7815 to reload the factory-default configuration file.
This means that you will lose all settings that you had previously saved.

1.5.1 How to Use the RESET Button

Make sure the power LED is on.
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Locate the Reset hole.
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Insert a thin object into the Reset hole for longer than eight seconds to reset the NBG7815 back to its
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factory-default configuration.

1.6 The WPS Button

Your NBG7815 supports Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS), which is an easy way to set up a secure wireless
network. WPS is an industry standard specification, defined by the Wi-Fi Alliance.
WPS allows you to quickly set up a wireless network with strong security, without having to configure
security settings manually. Each WPS connection works between two devices. Both devices must
support WPS (check each device's documentation to make sure).
Depending on the devices you have, you can either press a button (on the device itself, or in its
configuration utility) or enter a PIN (a unique Personal Identification Number that allows one device to
authenticate the other) in each of the two devices. When WPS is activated on a device, it has two
minutes to find another device that also has WPS activated. Then, the two devices connect and set up
a secure network by themselves.
You can use the WPS button in the Web Configurator of the NBG7815 to activate WPS in order to quickly
set up a wireless network with strong security.
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