NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.

Forum Discussion

MissMick's avatar
MissMick
Tutor
May 04, 2021

DESPERATE! NO WIFI because I Mistakenly changed routerlogin.net password and can't log in

Subject says it all. How do I get out of this vicious circle? I STUPIDLY changed the password and now don't have wifi because I can't log in. Can't even fix this by using my iphone hotspot. Previousl...
plemans's avatar
plemans
Guru
May 04, 2021

Did you try recoverying the password using password recovery? 

If that didn't work, you can always factory reset by pushing and holding reset for 7-15 seconds. 

MissMick's avatar
MissMick
Tutor
May 04, 2021

UPDATE: after going around many times with router restart, etc., I finally was able to access wifi again and fix my problem.