How to Recover Forgotten Router Password?

Today's post is one recurring issue I fixed in my first company. During my Computer Science and Engineering graduation, one ISP hired me as a support engineer during my internship.

They trained me in network devices in the SOHO sector. For those who don't know SOHO, it is the short form of Small Office Home Office.

After the training, they assigned me to the ISP technical support division.

Most of the time in SOHO customer care service, I received calls regarding issues with lost router passwords.

The complaints were like the customer forgot his router password, she could not log in to her wireless router, or the password she set for the router was no longer working, etc.

Most calls have a similar pattern. The customer set a different password for their wireless routers by changing the default password.

Later, they failed to recall the password from memory. They need a way to recover their lost router password.

Unfortunately, routers in the standard Small Office Home Office devices category have no password recovery procedure like on high-end routers.

So, practically, we cannot recover the lost password and save the current router settings. However, we have a process to follow in case of a lost modem/router password.

To learn the router and modem password recovery process, follow the guide below.

1. Check for the Old Router Password

   In this step, we should try to pick the old router password from either memory or written documents.

   For an average user, there is a chance that he may write down the router password in his diary or other papers. Another workaround is to ask the customer to use word combinations (words with significant importance in his life).

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   I understand that it is a frustrating step for many people. However, we should not avoid this step.

   
   

2. Try the Default Username and Password to log in to the router

   Sometimes, the user may never change his default router username and password. You might feel strange, but about 50 percent of the customers I assisted didn't bother changing the default router password.

   The default username and password is a combination of admin.

   So, try the default username and password to log in. Team CoreNetworkZ created the default router password combination for you. Have a look at the possible combinations below.

   
   

   Username	Password
   admin	admin
   admin
   	admin

   
   

   Allow me to explain the default router and model password combination.

   
   

   1. Try both username and password as admin.

      
      

   2. The username is admin. The password field is blank.

      
      

   3. The username is blank, and the password is admin.

   
   
   

3. Reset Router Settings

   Let us learn the final procedure to recover the forgotten modem and router password. If the above two options won't work, the last one is to reset and reconfigure your router.

   It is the last step, and this process will erase all custom router settings. To know the steps to reset your router, click the link below.

   How to reset a router?
   
   

Today, you learned to recover or reset the forgotten modem and router password. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.