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thihacr1993
Dec 01, 2020Aspirant
cant find wifi router name
My internet service went out few times today so I had to restart to modem for like the first 2 times and my laptop and my phone was able to reconnect to the wifi just fine. But the last time I had my...
plemans
Dec 01, 2020Guru
Does it work if you're hardwired in?
What are all the led's showing on it?
Did the wifi on/off button get pushed during the resets? Push and hold it for 2 seconds.
- thihacr1993Dec 01, 2020Aspirant
Does it work if you're hardwired in? - I have not tried hardwired it yet but I'll check it out.
What are all the led's showing on it? - all the led are lighted up except the last 2 icons (one looks like 3 computer connected to each others and one looks like the USB icon)
Did the wifi on/off button get pushed during the resets? Push and hold it for 2 seconds. - I did push and hold it for few second the last time I tried it. The modem lighted up and works fine but no wifi name shown on my laptop and my phone
- plemansDec 01, 2020Guru
did it somehow get set back to defaults?
Maybe its broadcasting under a different ssid.
I'd log into it hardwired and check the ssid/password info as well as if it works.
- thihacr1993Dec 01, 2020Aspirant
Thank you! I'll check that. Sorry but how do I log into the hardwired and check the ssid/password info? I tried to use either routerlogin.net or http://192.168.1.1 in the address bar to check but nothing shown. I'm using the internet on my phone at the moment.