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jguhse
Follower
Dec 27, 2019

Wireless password is visible from orbi router amin screen

I am just setting up a new orbi system and logged into the router admin at orbilogin.com and the from the home screen there are six icons showing the status of various features and at the bottom of t...
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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Dec 27, 2019

Orbi and other NG routers have been like this for a while now. I presume it's a convienence kind of thing and NG probably intended it for simple view for those who are only administrating the router and doing management with in the web page. Most of the time, there is usually nobody else around or users should know by know already to do any administration on there routers with no body else around unless you have authorized users that can be around and already know whats going on. 

 

You can post about this here to see if you can get NG to change this policy:

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-For-Home/idb-p/idea-exchange-for-home

 

Good Luck.