Router Settings

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• Monday 26 August 2019, 11:00-12:00
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Update the firmware. You may be able to do this with the click of a button, or you may have to go to your router’s support page, download the latest firmware, and manually upload it to your router. While you’re doing this, make note of the date that the firmware came out if the manufacturer released it a few years ago, that company probably does not support your router anymore, and you may want to upgrade it soon. Reset to factory settings. If your router offers to back up your settings, do that now just in case. Then find the option to restore your router to factory defaults, and click on it. This will erase your settings, but also ensure any previous hacks will no longer compromise your system. If you run into issues setting the router back up from scratch later on, you can always restore from the backup to see what settings you might have forgotten to re-enable. Change your password. After restoring your router to factory settings, it’ll go back to using the default password. This is bad, since these codes are easy for anyone to find online. So look for the option to change the router login password. This is not the Wi-Fi code, which we’ll get to in a moment, but the password you use to log into this web interface. This option should be in the same administrative settings as the firmware update you just ran. Create a memorable username and a strong password, and write it down somewhere so you don’t forget preferably in a secure password manager like LastPass. Source website: https://19216811-login.info

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