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WNDR4300SW default password doesn't work after factory reset?
I have been trhing to get "into" a WNDDR4300SW (v1 since it does not indicate a version) for a while now with no success. I have to changes some settings, an address reservation for a new printer, a...
> WNDR4300SW [...]
The "SW" suffix seems to indicate an ISP-specific ("SureWest", now
"Consolidated Communications") device, which has implications for its
(probably ISP-specific) firmware.https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/td-p/1337888
> I put the router into the mode to upload via TFTP. [...]
And you brought out the big guns because the normal firmware update
procedure failed in some way?> [...] I left it this way for an hour or so [...]
I would not expect a wait of more than a few (say, ten?) minutes,
with no sign of intelligent activity, to be productive.> any ideas (other than junking it and buying a new router!)
That would probably be more effective (with less effort) than any of
the alternatives. I don't remember reading anything about that model.
Possibly interesting:https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1755280
I would have expected the TFTP scheme to be brutal enough to overcome
the special identity of such a device, but I've been disappointed
before. A wider Web search for your (correctly transcribed) model
number might find more wisdom elsewhere.
> WNDR4300SW [...]
The "SW" suffix seems to indicate an ISP-specific ("SureWest", now
"Consolidated Communications") device, which has implications for its
(probably ISP-specific) firmware.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/td-p/1337888
> I put the router into the mode to upload via TFTP. [...]
And you brought out the big guns because the normal firmware update
procedure failed in some way?
> [...] I left it this way for an hour or so [...]
I would not expect a wait of more than a few (say, ten?) minutes,
with no sign of intelligent activity, to be productive.
> any ideas (other than junking it and buying a new router!)
That would probably be more effective (with less effort) than any of
the alternatives. I don't remember reading anything about that model.
Possibly interesting:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1755280
I would have expected the TFTP scheme to be brutal enough to overcome
the special identity of such a device, but I've been disappointed
before. A wider Web search for your (correctly transcribed) model
number might find more wisdom elsewhere.
Give that man a cigar!
After chasing this for a week the answer that this is custom firmware for Consolidated Communication is the right one. They have a different default username/password combo and when I used that I was able to get into the router.
I don't know if I can post the CCI password here but you can call their tech support people and they will tell you their default passwords. Worked the first time
> [...] They have a different default username/password combo [...]
My quick Web search found multiple places which said
"admin"+"password", so I stopped looking. A more diligent search found
different (better?) info.> I don't know if I can post the CCI password here [...]
I'll take a chance: "admin"+"cciadmin".
https://gist.github.com/aplocher/7d717925fe00c6602bed
Not a very well-kept secret, I'd say.
Adding "burnboardid" to the search might reveal how to un-SureWest
the thing. I have no experience with a WNDR4300SW, so I know nothing,
but, to enable Telnet access on my junk, I use the program which I
modified: http://antinode.info/nte/