What should I do if I forget router password?

The router password could be easily forgotten after a long time that you last logged into its management interface. It’s not like router username, which is usually the phrase ‘admin’, you probably have changed the default password to a complex one, so it’s not easy to remember what it exactly is. If you forget the router administrator password, I suggest you follow the steps:

1. Check the default password first, search it on the Internet, try to find out what phrases it is, it may be ‘admin’, ‘123456’, etc.

2. Reset your router to factory settings.

First, check whether there is a default password.
Look at the bottom of your router, or other parts of it; there is a label that gives you some initial configuration information about this router. If there is a default administrator password, then you can try to log in to your router to check whether it’s right. If you can’t find any password information there, try searching your router brand and model on search engines, which will always give you answers.

However, nowadays, some major wireless router factories no longer set a default administrator password, which means it’s blank. So you can also try to log in with a user name and blank password.

Second, reset and restore your router to factory settings.
If your router does not have a default administrator password, and you have forgotten it before setting up the router. Now the solution is to restore the router to factory settings. How to do this? Reset your router, then reset the password.

How to restore factory settings?
1. Look carefully at your router. There is a reset button that is always beside the ‘Power’ port. Below the button, there might be some English phrases: Reset, RESET, WPS / RESET, Default, and so on. Some of the router reset button is in a small hole inside; pay attention to find it on the router. After your router is connected to the power, hold down the reset button for about 10 seconds, then it will restore to factory settings.

The time for the process is different due to different routers; some routers may need 5 seconds, some may need 3 seconds. The right way to judge this is to look at the power light; if it blinks, it means you’ve successfully reset the device.

After the router is restored to factory settings, the router can not access the Internet for the time being. Because after factory settings are restored, all configuration information in the router is cleared. So, you need to configure your router from the start to make it work normally.