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Nighthawk R6700 password recovery
I would like to change the channel on My Nighthawk R6700, but the router login is not accepting my password. So I tried the steps to recover the password, but it is not working either. In the a...
I factory reset the router, but it didn’t bring it back to it’s original setting.
That's wrong. A reset really should get you back to the defaults.
Try this:
- Press reset for 30 seconds
- Keep pressing reset while removing power
- Keep pressing reset for another 30 seconds while apply power
The loop you got stuck in is a Netgear bug/feature. If password recovery is on, but the iuser hasn't t set up some answers, it keeps going round in circles.
I factory reset the router, but it didn’t bring it back to it’s original setting.
That's wrong. A reset really should get you back to the defaults.
Try this:
- Press reset for 30 seconds
- Keep pressing reset while removing power
- Keep pressing reset for another 30 seconds while apply power
The loop you got stuck in is a Netgear bug/feature. If password recovery is on, but the iuser hasn't t set up some answers, it keeps going round in circles.