How To Set Up Password For Wifi Belkin Router

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Similar most routers, Belkin Wi-Fi routers employ ii passwords. The Wi-Fi password protects your network from being accessed by anyone who shouldn't be using it. This countersign is required to log onto the network and access the Net. The second password is the admin password for protecting anyone from tampering with the router, like changing its Wi-Fi password.

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Setting Upwards an Admin Countersign
Connect an Ethernet cable from your estimator
Type http : //router''
Select Organisation Settings under Utilities in the left carte
Setting Upward a Wi-Fi Countersign
Connect the router to your calculator
Click the Security option
Click Authentication

ane Setting Up an Admin Password

2 Connect an Ethernet cablevision from your computer

Connect an Ethernet cable from your computer to any LAN port on the Belkin Wi-Fi router. If you don't have a spare cable, you can borrow the one connecting the router to your modem if that is how they are continued. You lot don't need Internet access for this procedure.

3 Type http : //router''

Type "http://router" (without quotes) in the address bar of your Web browser to access the router's setup page. Enter your current admin password if you lot entered one before. The default settings on a Belkin router don't crave a password, so if you haven't changed the countersign before, leave the password field blank, and and then click "Submit."

4 Select System Settings nether Utilities in the left menu

Select "System Settings" nether Utilities in the left menu. Type your current admin password if you have one in the first field. Type a new password in both new password fields. For best security, use a combination of letters and numbers that would be hard for anyone to guess. Click "Apply Changes," and and then click "Save."

five Setting Up a Wi-Fi Password

6 Connect the router to your reckoner

Connect the router to your computer, type "http://router" (without quotes) in the address bar of your Web browser to access the router's setup folio, and so enter your admin countersign, if prompted.

7 Click the Security choice

Click the "Security" option in the left card, select "WPA/WPA2-Personal (PSK)" from the drop-down card, and so click the "Apply Changes" button.

8 Click Authentication

Click "Hallmark," and then select "WPA2-PSK" from the drop-down menu. The WPA-PSK pick is for old engineering science, and it'due south not likely y'all volition need to apply it.

Type your Wi-Fi password in the "Pre-shared Cardinal (PSK)" field. Choose any password betwixt viii and 63 characters long. Long passwords are more secure and should be a combination of letters and numbers. This is the countersign you will need to enter the side by side time you try to connect to the network. After that, your reckoner and other devices should call back the password. If the router is in your home, you may want to write downward the password on a sticky-annotation and keep information technology under the router.

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