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v1.0, January 2009
Chapter 3
Protecting Your Network
This chapter describes how to use the basic firewall features of the Wireless Router to protect your
network.
Protecting Access to Your Wireless Router
For security reasons, the router has its own user name and password. Also, after a period of
inactivity for a set length of time, the administrator login automatically disconnects. When
prompted, enter admin for the router user name and password for the router password. You can
use procedures in the following sections to change the router password and the amount of time for
the administrator’s login time-out.
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 and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols. Your password can be up to 30 characters.
Changing the Built-In Password
1. Log in to the router at its default LAN address of http://192.168.0.1 with its default user name
of admin, default password of password, or using whatever password and LAN address you
have chosen for the router.
Note: The user name and password are not the same as a user name or password you
might use to log in to your Internet connection.