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TxGeek
Apr 06, 2022Aspirant
Can't login to my R6260 Nighthawk Router.
I've been trying to login to my R6260 for months without success. The Nighthawk App is perfectly useless. I've tried putting in the ip address of 192.168.1.1 several times only to be met with the m...
plemans
Apr 06, 2022Guru - Experienced User
did you ever just start over and factory reset it?
Push and hold reset for 7-15 seconds while powered on.
The defaults are:
login: admin
password: password
all lower case
There's a support site with access to manuals, firmware, install guides, etc.
Go to https://www.netgear.com/support/
Type in your model number and from there it'll take you to the above.
Its a great resource to start with.
TxGeek
Apr 06, 2022Aspirant
No I haven't tried that yet...that's kind of a last resort thing to do but may have to try that.