XPost: alt.windows-xp   
   From: V@nguard.LH   
      
   Pfsszxt wrote:   
      
   > VanguardLH wrote:   
   >   
   >> Pfsszxt wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I've given up on trying to recover a router password. I know it's   
   >>> stored in the registry but encripted.   
   >>   
   >> Nope.   
   >   
   > Then how does WinXP get me on if the password isn't on the computer??   
      
   You been told (by others): you logon the router.  The *router* knows its   
   password.  The password is in the ROUTER.  You can connect to that same   
   router from Windows 98, Vista, Redhat, Ubuntu, or whatever OS you have   
   on multiple hosts and in each case the router's password is stored in   
   the router so it's the same no matter from which host you connect.   
      
   The router's password is stored in the router.   
      
   >> Stored in the router.  You'll actually have to CONNECT to the router   
   >> to modify its configuration (after a reset *if* needed since, after   
   >> all, you claimed to have discarded the old one and bought a new   
   >> router a couple weeks ago).   
   >   
   > I said no such thing. I may have mentioned that I have an old one and   
   > a new one.   
      
   Your prior request: Router password recovery.   
   Your solution: You bought a new router.   
      
   That eliminated having to recover a password, or to change it, because   
   you got the default login provided by that new router.  Resetting your   
   old router would have reverted it back to its default login, too.   
      
   >>> You'd think the someone at MS might have at some time thought that   
   >>> users might wnat to recover it and given a method to do so. The do   
   >>> provide (via ControlPanel/Run/config a way to recover the IP address   
   >>> but not the password!   
   >>   
   >>It's not Microsoft's job to configure routers.   
   >   
   >    Nor did I say anthythig about MS configuring routers.   
      
   And who was it that said:   
      
     You'd think the someone at MS might have at some time thought   
     that users might wnat to recover it and given a method to do so.   
     The do provide (via ControlPanel/Run/config a way to recover the   
     IP address but not the password!   
      
   Stop focusing on what Microsoft does in their operating system on your   
   host and focus on what the router does.  You could wipe your hard disk   
   and install Ubuntu.  That will have no effect on the password stored in   
   the *router*.   
      
   >> So you claimed to have gotten a new router back on Feb 9 because you   
   >> couldn't be bothered to reset your old one and here you are again   
   >> claiming you can't figure out how to reset the new router (which   
   >> probably doesn't need to be reset since you probably haven't changed   
   >> it from the factory-time defaults yet).   
   >   
   >     You're free with the assumptions ---but  false again!   
      
   Your history is not as unclear as you wish to others.  All respondents   
   have been taking random shots at your fog of details.  Note their   
   responses and in the other newsgroups to which you MULTI-posted.   
      
   >  You do manage to create a lot from clear air.   
      
   Oh yes, it must be me putting those words into your posts asking how to   
   recover a password from a router and then later claiming your solution   
   was to buy a new one.   
      
   > I have an old Linksys (at least 5 years old) router which I am   
   > currently using. I'm on else I wouldn't be accessing the news groups.   
   > I have misplaced the password and need it to use a new Ipad. I also   
   > have a new dual channel Cisco Systems router which I was also using   
   > occasionaly but an accedental power outage to it has apparently reset   
   > it. So I'm inquiring as to how I go about setting a new one.   
      
   Both routers let you do a reset.  Something you've been told about by   
   multiple respondents.   
      
   RTFM for the Linksys.  Other than the generic advice you've been given   
   about pushing and holding a reset button, the manual will tell you how   
   to do that.  RTFM for the Cisco.  It will tell you, too, how to reset to   
   factory defaults.  Then RTFM for both models on how to navigate through   
   their web config screens to change the password to whatever you want.   
      
   Reset the router.  If not obvious by just looking at the router then   
   RTFM.  If a blank password isn't the default one after a reset, RTFM to   
   find out what that manufacturer for that model chooses for the default.   
   Then connect your web browser to the router's web server.  Again, you've   
   been told the typical IP addresses by other respondents and if that   
   doesn't work then RTFM.   
      
   "Linksys router ---older model"   
   That certainly narrowed it down.  Apparently all labelling has peeled   
   off or been obliterated on this older router.  So I picked one.  Might   
   not be yours but then you never identified yours.  I picked WRT54GL,   
   hardware version 1.1.  Went to linksys.com, under their Support section,   
   searched on "WRT54GL", and, yep, there was a manual there.  Yep, page 3   
   says how to reset.  Page 4 tells you the default password (from factory   
   or after reset).  Page 5 says how to connect your web browser to the   
   router's web server (i.e., what IP address to use).  Now it's YOUR turn   
   to go there and get the manual (or use the one that came with the   
   router) to find out how to do the reset and what is the default password   
   and how to change it -- for whatever is the actual model you have.   
      
   *YOUR* claimed fix for your old router was to buy a new one.  Didn't fix   
   anything.  You still don't know its password.  You haven't bothered to   
   identify the new one, either.  Cisco is a company name, not a model   
   number of one of their products.  Well, go back to Linksys/Cisco and get   
   their online manual if for some reason your new router didn't include a   
   hardcopy or one on a CD.  That's assuming that just looking at the   
   device doesn't clue in how to reset it, like a "Reset" label right above   
   the switch you push and hold for awhile, and assuming the default   
   password isn't blank or "admin".   
      
   In each case, with your old router and with your new router, you've been   
   told to reset the router to revert it to its default or factory-time   
   password and then change it to whatever you want now.  You don't   
   identify actual model numbers.  You don't want to read the manuals.  As   
   such, respondents can only give vague or generic instructions.  Don't   
   expect respondents to regurgitate the instructions in the manual that   
   you could read yourself if the generic instructions, so far, don't work.   
      
   Time for YOU to try the suggestions (you never said you tried anything   
   so far suggested).  If those don't work, it's time for YOU to read the   
   manuals that tell how to do a reset, how to login into the router's   
   internal web server, and how to change the password to something   
   different than the default.   
      
      
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