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Chapter 5 Doing Basic Router Housekeeping This chapter describes how to use some of the maintenance features of your Pre-N Wireless Router WGM124. These features can be found by clicking on the Maintenance heading in the Main Menu of the browser interface. Other maintenance features not presented in this chapter can be found accessed via links in the browser interface of the wireless router to the User Guide and in the help screens. Changing the Administrator Password Note: Before changing the wireless router password, follow the instructions under "Configuration File Management" on page 5-2 to save your configuration settings. If you forget the new password, you will have to reset the wireless router back to the factory defaults to be able to log in using the default password of password. This means you will have to restore all the wireless router configuration settings. If you ever have to reset the wireless router back to the factory defaults, you can restore your settings from the backup configuration file. The default password for the wireless router's Web Configuration Manager is password. Change this password to a more secure password. From the Main Menu of the browser interface, under the Maintenance heading, select Set Password to bring up the menu shown below. Figure 5-1: Set Password menu Doing Basic Router Housekeeping 5-1 December 2004

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Doing Basic Router Housekeeping
5-1
December 2004
Chapter 5
Doing Basic Router Housekeeping
This chapter describes how to use some of the maintenance features of your Pre-N Wireless Router
WGM124. These features can be found by clicking on the Maintenance heading in the Main Menu
of the browser interface. Other maintenance features not presented in this chapter can be found
accessed via links in the browser interface of the wireless router to the User Guide and in the help
screens.
Changing the Administrator Password
The default password for the wireless router’s Web Configuration Manager is
password
. Change
this password to a more secure password.
From the Main Menu of the browser interface, under the Maintenance heading, select Set
Password to bring up the menu shown below.
Figure 5-1:
Set Password menu
Note:
Before changing the wireless router password, follow the instructions under
“Configuration File Management” on page 5-2
to save your configuration settings. If you
forget the new password, you will have to reset the wireless router back to the factory
defaults to be able to log in using the default password of password. This means you will
have to restore all the wireless router configuration settings. If you ever have to reset the
wireless router back to the factory defaults, you can restore your settings from the
backup configuration file.