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Protecting Your Network, Protecting Access to Your Wireless Modem Router

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Chapter 4 Protecting Your Network This chapter describes how to use the basic firewall features of the DG834N RangeMaxTM NEXT Wireless ADSL2+ Modem Router to protect your network. Protecting Access to Your Wireless Modem Router For security reasons, the wireless modem router has its own user name and password. Also, after a period of inactivity for a set length of time, the administrator login will automatically disconnect. When prompted, enter admin for the wireless modem router user name and password for the wireless modem router password. You can use procedures below to change the wireless modem router's password and the amount of time for the administrator's login timeout. Note: The user name and password are not the same as any user name or password your may use to log in to your Internet connection. NETGEAR recommends that you change this password to a more secure password. The ideal password should contain no dictionary words from any language, and should be a mixture of both upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols. Your password can be up to 30 characters. How to Change the Built-In Password 1. Log in to the wireless modem router at its default LAN address of http://192.168.0.1 with its default User Name of admin, default password of password, or using whatever Password and LAN address you have chosen for the wireless modem router. Figure 4-1 Protecting Your Network 4-1 v1.0, May 2006

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Protecting Your Network
4-1
v1.0, May 2006
Chapter 4
Protecting Your Network
This chapter describes how to use the basic firewall features of the DG834N RangeMax
TM
NEXT
Wireless ADSL2+ Modem Router to protect your network.
Protecting Access to Your Wireless Modem Router
For security reasons, the wireless modem router has its own user name and password. Also, after a
period of inactivity for a set length of time, the administrator login will automatically disconnect.
When prompted, enter
admin
for the wireless modem router user name and
password
for the
wireless modem router password. You can use procedures below to change the wireless modem
router's password and the amount of time for the administrator’s login timeout.
NETGEAR recommends that you change this password to a more secure password. The ideal
password should contain no dictionary words from any language, and should be a mixture of both
upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols. Your password can be up to 30 characters.
How to Change the Built-In Password
1.
Log in to the wireless modem router at its default LAN address of
with its
default User Name of
admin
, default password of
password
, or using whatever Password and
LAN address you have chosen for the wireless modem router.
Note:
The user name and password are not the same as any user name or password your
may use to log in to your Internet connection.
Figure 4-1