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How do I change my router username and password, and Nighthawk app.
This article tells me how to use the Nighthawk app to change my user name and password: https://kb.netgear.com/000060891/How-do-I-change-my-WiFi-network-name-and-password-using-the-Nighthawk-app?art...
I have a Nighthawk R6900.
Are you saying I must reset my entire router merely to change my password for logging into it? I don't want to do that.
What's the Nighthawk app? I could apparently use that tool to change my password.
charleykyd wrote:
Are you saying I must reset my entire router merely to change my password for logging into it? I don't want to do that.
What's the Nighthawk app? I could apparently use that tool to change my password.
Have you set a password for logging into the router? If so, can you remember it? Did you set up password recovery? If not, you are stuffed. A reset is the only option.
If you haven't set up a password, then the default router admin password is written on the device itself, along with the default wifi password. The router's password is, get this, password. Wifi will be something complicated.
Manuals are always a good place to start.
Visit the support pages:
Support | NETGEAR
Feed in your model number and check the documentation for your hardware.
That page will also have any software, firmware and drivers for your device, if they exist. There's even a link to the Nighthawk app.
Begin with the Quick Start/Installation Guide.
Check the section in the manual
Specify Basic WiFi Settings.
There may also be some helpful videos on what to do.
You may have done that already. I can't tell from your message.
I mention it because Netgear gave up on supplying paper manuals and CD versions some years ago and people sometimes miss the downloads.
I have the default user name and password when logging into my router. And, yes, I remember them. And so does Chrome.
So, again: How do I change my router's username and password?
charleykyd wrote:
So, again: How do I change my router's username and password?
Read the manual.
Look at the section: Change the admin Password
You cannot change the username.
Before asking my question, I searched for more than half an hour for the answer. I found tens of thousands of results in each search! But your suggestion gave me a search term that worked. Thanks.
However, the Enable Password Recovery dropdown is empty, as the image shows. How do I populate it?It's been a long time since I've seen an RTFM response in a forum.