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Update to the latest Nighthawk App (formerly NETGEAR Up) WiFi Simplified
“NETGEAR Up” is now the “Nighthawk App” with all the same great features and much more to come!
The Nighthawk® App makes it easy to set up your router and get more out of your WiFi. With...
Can someone please help me. I have downlaoded the Nighthawk app. I am trying to set up the app and it keeps asking me for my Username and Password for netgear because my firmware is out of date. I put in my username, got it from netgear, I even put in passwords that I had down as my password. Didnt work, so I made a new password. Still cant get past that question!
So frustrated!!!
Thank you
Use the username and password that you use to login to the router. The default username is admin
... and the default password is, get this, password.
If that does not work then someone has changed the password.
The only way to recover is to find out password or factory reset the thing to get you back to the defaults.
They are also on the device itself.
That's just not true. There are lots of people who can't login via that app to their router.
kboy24 wrote:
That's just not true. There are lots of people who can't login via that app to their router.
No idea what that refers to or what you deem to be "just not true". Believe me, the default password is password – look at the label and check the manuals – so that bit is true.
But if you have a problem, explain it and someone might have ideas.
