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Nighthawk AC1900 Connection Issues
I purchased the Nighthawk AC1900 router last spring. I had been using the router provided by my cable company but was not satisfied with the coverage in my house. Since I've had this new router, I'...
Dunyduke16 wrote:
And it wasn't like these were questions that I forgot the answer to (older brother's first name and dad's middle name).
To quote an earlier message from you:
Again, don't recall ever answering security questions, but I answer both questions, which are very straightforward.
The router will not know your answers unless you provided them when you set up password recovery.
Understood. My point is that I've never been prompted to answer security questions that I had not already provided answers for previously. So my assumption was that I had answered the questions months ago and just didn't recall doing it.
I have to agree Netgear's "password reminder" scheme is nuts. It should spot when it has nothing in its memory to check against. But this has been the pattern for some years. That it automatically turns on password recovery without insisting on answers just adds to the aggravation.