I forgot my router password. What to do? Hard and software reset

So they rarely use it, only once at a stage initial installation. It's quite annoying when you forget your router password because some important information, such as the key/password for your wireless connection and your ISP username/password for the Internet connection is stored in the router. If you cannot access your router's configuration, you cannot change wireless dongle or update your Internet provider access settings.

How to recover your router password?

The most obvious and common advice you can find on the Internet is the hard reset method, but this will also reset all router settings back to the default configuration. Therefore, we will leave this option as a last resort. Here are some possible ways gain access to your router if you have forgotten your password.

1. Factory router password

First, you need to remember whether you changed the standard password on the router. If you used the factory password, it is easy to recover. In this article we wrote.

2. RouterPassView program

3. Restore using Bruteforce method

Another option is to obtain the password by brute force using a dictionary. For this we need a program and a dictionary for Brutus . On our website there is big choice dictionaries for brute force. But in in this case It is advisable for you to remember at least part of the password. This way the search can be more efficient and completed much faster.

4. Password reset

If everything we described above did not help, the only option left is to reset the router to factory settings. After this procedure, the router will return to the standard login and password. We have already written above how to find the standard password.

In order to reset the settings, you need to find the RESET button on the router case. Typically, this small button is located on the back of the router, next to the connection connectors network cables. This button It has small size and is strongly recessed into the router body. Therefore, in order to press it you will need to use some thin and long object.

To completely reset the router settings, just:

• turn on the router and wait for it to boot (wait 2 minutes)
• find a special hole on the back of the device, inside there is a mini RESET button
• take something thin, such as a toothpick or a straightened paper clip, and press the button in the hole
• all the lights on the front panel should go out, blink or blink, or just wait 15 seconds
• The router will boot with factory settings

Password and Wi-Fi settings or ADSL router will be reset to default.

Hard and software reset

Settings can be reset using hardware or software.

Hardware - using the RESET (WPS) button. This method is universal for all Wi-Fi routers. This is the only option if:

• you don’t know/forgot your login and/or password to enter the router settings
• you do not know or have changed and forgotten the IP address of the router
• after “some” settings it doesn’t allow me to log into the web interface

The only negative is that you need to have access to a router.

Programmatically – this is through the router’s web interface

Those. using its built-in customization menu. It’s convenient if you can log into the web interface and you know your login/password. This method is suitable for cases when it doesn't work or maybe .

To enter settings home router it needs to be connected via cable or Wi-Fi to a computer or laptop. The Internet is not needed for this. Then in address bar you need to dial its IP address, by default it is:

192.168.0.1

192.168.1.1

The IP address, login and password for logging into the admin panel can be printed on the router itself from below:

Also, these are the settings that will be applied after a reset, both software and hardware. In most cases:

login: admin

password: admin

Enter the password and get to the control panel.

U different manufacturers it is different, but the essence is the same.

How to reset the password on TP-Link routers

Let's go to the menu " System Tools -> Factory Defaults" and press the "Reset" button. Reboot, done:

Resetting password and settings on D-Link routers

We follow the menu path “ Maintenance -> Save and Restore-> Restore Device" Click the button:

Or menu " Management -> Restore Default -> Restore Default Settings»

ASUS devices

Also very popular devices. You need to go to the menu " Manage settings -> Administration -> Factory settings -> Restore»:

Resetting Zyxel routers

If you are the happy owner of such a device, you will probably see a similar admin panel:

We pass " System -> Configuration -> Reset" After a reboot, all options return to their default state.

That's all

Before resetting the settings, I advise you to rewrite in text file IR current settings networks, if you know what I mean. These are the parameters that were entered by the Internet provider. Did everything work out for you? Write comments.

New device, such as a smartphone or laptop, but can't remember the WiFi password. In this article we will tell you what to do if you have forgotten your WiFi password.

What to do if I forgot my WiFi password

Forgot your WiFi password? Don't worry, it will only take you a minute to find out your password. If you have a connection to WiFi device, then you can view the password saved on it at any time. Even if you don't have any connected devices, you can always find out the password by connecting to the web interface of your router.

Method #1: View your saved password using Windows

Open Network and Sharing Center.

After this, the “Properties” window will open in front of you. wireless network».

Here you need to check the box next to “Display entered characters”. After that, in the “Network Security Key” field you will see the WiFi password.

Method No. 2. View the saved password using the WirelessKeyView program.

In addition, you can use WirelessKeyView program(). I found this small program when I once forgot my WiFi password.

This program is distributed absolutely free, is small in size and does not require installation. All it does is display all WiFi passwords stored in the operating system in the form of a convenient list. All you need to do to view your saved passwords is download this program and run it with administrator rights.

Method No. 3. View the password using the router’s web interface.

If you have forgotten your WiFi password and you do not have a single device connected to this access point, then you need to connect to the web interface. To do this, enter in your browser network address your router and log into the web interface using your username and password. Typically, the router is accessible at the address “http://192.168.0.1” or “http://192.168.1.1”.

In the router's web interface, you need to find the section responsible for the security of your WiFi networks. Usually, this section called "Wireless Security".

Here you need to find the text field in which you enter the WiFi password and check the box that removes the protection from viewing the password. In my case, this checkbox is called “Unmask”.

Each router manufacturer installs firmware on its creation, device control. The router's operating parameters can be changed by configuring the firmware. To do this, you need to log into the control panel; you cannot do without a password and login.

What to do if you forgot your control panel password

If you want to change the password, activate or deactivate any function of the router, or change its operating parameters, enter the address 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 in the address bar of your browser and follow the link. Important condition: The control panel will open only if the computer is connected to the router via Wi-Fi signal or using a cable.

You must enter your login and password

Before giving you access to the settings, the system will ask you for a login and password. If you don’t know or have forgotten your login information, you won’t be able to change the router settings. But there are two ways:

• If you have not changed the control panel password before, then the default values ​​are still used. The default login and password can be found in the documentation included with the router or in the table below;
• If you changed your password or login and then forgot it, you will have to reset the router settings. You won’t be able to recover your password, as you can on Internet resources, but by resetting the device parameters, you will roll back the changed password, that is, to log into account The default password will again be used, which can be viewed from the table below.

Login using default values

If you have not changed your password or reset your device, look in the table for the router model you are using to find out your login and password. Paste the resulting values ​​into the fields that appear when you log into the control panel.

Table: standard logins and passwords for different routers

Reset

If the password has been changed, you need to reset the settings. Regardless of the model and manufacturer of the router, you will have to perform one action: hold down Reset button for 10–15 seconds, without releasing it until the router starts to reboot.

Typically the button is located on the back or side of the device and has a small diameter. Sometimes it is recessed deep into the body so that no one presses it accidentally. In this case, you will have to use a thin stick, needle or straightened paper clip.

Press the reset button for 10–15 seconds

As soon as the device turns on again, the settings will be reset, you can log in using standard password and login. Please note that the password set on Wi-Fi network, will also reset, so you need to install it again.

Video: logging into the control panel and finding the router password

To log into the router control panel, you need a username and password. If you changed and forgot the data, reset the router settings. If the settings have been reset or have not been changed before, use the standard values ​​from the table.

When people ask me a question in the comments, “ I forgot my password WiFi router, what to do, how to find out and restore?“, then I’m always at a loss as to what exactly the reader meant - to connect to a wireless network or to log into the admin panel of the router? I will try to satisfy the expectations of everyone who has come to this page and needs help - we will analyze both cases in detail.

Ways to recover a password from a router’s Wi-Fi network

But the problem of recovering a Wi-Fi password was, is and will always be relevant as long as it exists this type wireless connection. Well, really, we introduce it once and forget about it forever. In the meantime, any reinstalling Windows or even just a change network adapter results in you being unable to access the Internet. Let's look at this issue in this article.

In a situation where you want to connect a gadget to a wireless network, but have forgotten the Wi-Fi key, there are several ways to recover the password:

• via computer
• telephone
• or on the router itself

First of all, you need to understand that all passwords that have ever been entered to connect to wifi are stored inside the operating system of the computer or smartphone - Windows, Android or iOS - it does not matter. They are always located in one of the system files. Therefore, you can view the Wi-Fi key without resorting to a router. To do this, you just need to install a small program and watch. I made a separate article on how to do this for each operating system, the links to which were given above.

How to find out the password for your Wi-Fi on your router?

The easiest way to restore forgotten password from your own WiFi connections— see it in the settings in the router control panel.

However, it is worth noting that if we're talking about about connecting to public network outside the home, then access to the administrator section is, of course, closed. Therefore, if this is exactly your case, then I recommend reading the solutions without access to the router - the links to them were above.

If you have forgotten your password home network, and you have access to the router, then you need to:

1. Connect the router to the computer via twisted pair cable
2. Go to its settings
3. View the Wi-Fi password in the appropriate section.

Let's go through each point in more detail. It is necessary to connect to the router via cable so that the PC or laptop receives from it automatic mode IP address and ended up in the same local network.

Unfortunately, the phone is not suitable for this purpose. So we take the Ethernet wire - it usually lies in the box with the device - and insert it at one end into network card computer, and the other - into the LAN connector on the router.

We also check that in the network settings Windows connections checkboxes were checked automatic receipt IP and DNS servers.

After this, we can enter the router address and log into the control panel. Each router does it differently. How to do this has already been described many times in our other publications separately for each model, I recommend that you read them if you do not know how to get into this hidden section.

But for your convenience, I have created several similar articles for each individual router - links to them are below:

How to Find out the WiFi Password on a Windows 10 Computer?

Let's move on to the second way to find out the wifi password - on the computer itself with the operating system Windows 7, 8 or 10. There are also several solutions here, but in this article we will consider the two most reliable way to know WiFi password using a computer:

• through the program
• built-in using Windows

Wireless Key View for Windows 7 and 8

If you have at least once already connected to a network for which you need to remember the password, then you don’t have to hack it using some hacky programs. There is a very good one free utility, which fishes out the once entered password from the depths of the Windows operating system. It's called Wireless Key View - you can download it from the link. This program works with any, even the most complex, types of WPA/PSK encryption and, most importantly, with any Windows versions- 10, 8, 7 and even XP.

Download and run as administrator - no installation required. After a short wait, the program will find all the keys for the networks to which the computer has ever been connected using standard Windows applications (Wireless Zero Configuration in Windows XP and WLAN AutoConfig in higher versions). In short, if you did not use any third party applications, then everything will be found.

After that, save them in a separate text file and find the one you need exactly in this moment. After that, remember it, or you can change it and put New Password on wifi, which you can easily remember.

How to find out the Wi-Fi password using the built-in tools of Windows 10?

If separate program there is no way to install, you will have to go further the hard way. Fortunately, in the operating room Windows system 10 there is a built-in recovery option forgotten key authorization.

Click on the icon network connection in the lower right corner of the screen and go to “Open Network and Internet Settings”

A new window will open, where we switch to the “Security” tab and check the box for “Display entered characters”

That's all - now displayed in front of us Current Password from WiFi - record it and never lose it again!

How to Recover WiFi Password on Phone?

Now let's imagine one typical situation- somewhere, somewhere, you got the password for a WiFi connection - for example, from a neighbor 😉 You connected your phone or tablet to it and easily use the Internet. After some time, it became necessary to connect a laptop to it, but of course, the key had long since been safely forgotten - what to do and how to find out the wifi password on your phone?

QR code

We begin to randomly rummage through the phone settings to find this password - but to no avail, since it simply isn’t there.

Of course, we also don’t have access to the router.

Next, take another smartphone to which the settings will be transferred. A program for reading QR codes should already be installed on it in advance - but right now you don’t have WiFi on it. Or you need to connect to the Internet via mobile operator by 3g/4g. And the program is called QR Code Reader -she available in both the AppStore and PlayMarket.

We launch this application and point the camera at the smartphone screen with a code with WiFi settings.

A few moments and the program reads the network data and, after confirmation, will immediately connect to it.

If you want to transfer password data from an iPhone, then in the standard firmware properties there is no option to generate such a code. In order to create it, you will need to buy the Qrafter application for a small amount - in free version it can only read; in the paid version, it can also create.

From files on the phone

If you are using a device with operating Android system, that is, another way to find out saved WiFi passwords. As you know, the system stores all its data in the form of files - and passwords too. And they are in the file

/data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf

The only “but” is that you will only get access to this file with root access to the phone.
You can open wpa_supplicant.conf via text editor by connecting the phone via USB to the computer. This is the content he will provide us with:

These are the names, passwords and encryption types of all networks stored in the device.

WiFi Key Recovery App

There is also an easier way to find out this data - install free program WiFi Key Recovery or its equivalent WiFi Key Password, which also requires root rights.

Its convenience is that you do not need to rummage through system files— after launch, the utility will simply show the contents of the same file on the screen.

These are some simple tricks with which anyone can quickly find out the password for connecting to wifi router, having only your smartphone in hand. Use it!

How to recover the password from the router control panel?

It is known that in order to set up an Internet connection for any router, be it TP-Link, D-Link, Asus, Zyxel Keenetic or some other - it doesn’t matter, you either need to insert the included installation CD and perform step-by-step setup through the application, or go to its administrative part through a browser. But what to do if the disk has been lost for a long time, and the user forgot the router password to access the admin panel? How to change it and install your own?

Or, for example, another frequently occurring situation when you take old router, which has been lying on the shelf for a couple of years, and there are no instructions, no stickers, or any other information for it. In this case, how can you find it out, log into the router and change the password?

There are several ways to recover a forgotten password. Most often when initial setup users leave the authorization data that was set on the router by default. Therefore, you can do the following:

• View it in the user manual
• Look at the sticker on the router
• Find out from the catalog site data for authorization by model number

However, a more competent user would still change the router password to a more secure one. In addition, more and more often firmware on modern models made in such a way that during the initial configuration the key is forced to change in mandatory. Therefore, you will have to roll it back to .

Be careful - this will reset all network and Internet parameters to zero!

To do this, take some sharp object, such as a pin, and find the small recessed “Reset” button on the case. Click on it with the router turned on and wait 15-20 seconds.

Then we’ll try to get into the admin panel.

I hope everything worked out for you. If not, then ask your questions in the comments, we’ll try to figure out each individual situation. And don’t forget your router passwords again!

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