need to get my wireless password... from the router...

[alfa147x]

ok so here is the run down:
i had a 17 kid who lives down the street set my network up, he has now moved out ...

He had it set up so my wife could go to work and log-in to her home pc with very little difficulty.

the router is on a battery backup, and he told us NEVER to reset the router because all the setting would be lost and he would have to start over...


now our problem is I have just bought a new MacBook and I have lost the routers log in information and the password he gave me so when i bought my macbook i could connect to the router. I REALLY do not want to mess with my wife's way of work because if she gets a hang of some thing she hates to change....I was told if i can get into the router i can get or change the wireless password ( they called it a W. E . B pass word, I dont know) or i need to find the W E B password... Thanks for the help!

Oh and I'm sorry that i have no idea what i am getting into... this is not my account this is my grand - son's he is in California for summer and he told me he had no idea and to post the question in the networking section on this website...

I am old and don't know much about computers so i might ask some irritating questions .... thanks

 

[Kelemvor]

Some routers display the password and some display it as ******. You'd have to log into the router using the admin account and then go see if you can see it or not.

And assuming they meant WEP and not WEB.

Or call the kid up if you know where he lives now. Maybe he uses the same password every time he sets someone up.

 

[nweaver]

Step by step to try and help you out here.
1. What router (Brand and model, for example WRT54G V1.0)
2. What version of Windows are you running?

To get you started.
1. Open start, go to run, type "cmd" in and click "ok". This will open a command prompt, from which we can get some information.
2. in that window, type "ipconfig" and hit return. It should return some information such as IP Address, Subnet mask, and Default Gateway.
3. Open your web browser (Internet explorer or Firefox) and in the address bar, type in "http://" followed by the numbers for the default gateway, such as 192.168.0.1.
4. This should be logging into your router, and may prompt you for your password right away. common default passwords: no username, password "admin", username "admin" password "admin", username "admin" password "password".
5. post back here if you get logged in, and with the info requested above.

 

[JackMDS]

If it would be so easy to brake and go around Password there would be no reason to have them to begin with.

Reset the Router use the default to get in and start to learn how to configure (If you lost the manual as well, log to Router's support get it and read it).

When the basic things are working come back with the remote connection info to help setting the wife work connection.

Or, find a new 17 years old kid and this time Write down what he is doing.

However, if you find it impossible to provide the info there is always professional help around the corner, or in the mall.

 

[alfa147x]

No thats fine i'm heading over there to reset the router, he had his wife's (my grandmother) computer on a static ip.

I was thinking to put a 64 bit WEP using his phone number. it'll be easier for him .

Thanks!

 

[LuDaCriS66]

Run this program on your wife's computer or on any other Windows XP computer that is currently already connected to the network wirelessly

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/wirelesskeyview.html

This will retrieve the WEP/WPA key

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: LuDaCriS66
Run this program on your wife's computer or on any other Windows XP computer that is currently already connected to the network wirelessly

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/wirelesskeyview.html

This will retrieve the WEP/WPA key

This program can help only if.

There is Wireless Router configured with the securtiy On, connecting to a Wireless computer running with the Router's security passphrase, and managed by WZC.

The program would dechipher the passphrase hex string and you can add it to a second wireless computer.

Otherwise it is useless.