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What If I Don't Know My Login and Password?
If you don’t know your router login and password, there’s no reason to panic. Virtually all Linksys routers use “admin” as the default router password, and some don’t use any password at all. When it comes to the default login, you can either try “admin” or leave it blank.
Other common login/password combinations used by other manufacturers are:
| Login | Password |
|---|---|
| admin | Password |
| admin | michelangelo |
| user | Password |
| sitecom | admin |
| user | user |
| root | [None] |
| root | root |
| administrator | [None] |
| administrator | administrator |
If you’ve changed the default password to sometime else and you no longer remember what it was, you can restart your router to its default factory settings to reset its password by pressing and holding the Reset button for 10 seconds.
Make sure that the Power LED of the router is blinking when you press the reset button, which indicates that the router is being reset properly. The location of the reset button varies from model to model, but it’s usually right next to the power connector.
Alternatively, you can reset your router to its default factory settings from the router setup page:
- Turn on your router and connect it to your computer with an Ethernet cable.
- Open your favorite web browser and type “http://192.168.1.1” into the address bar.
- Enter the correct router login/password combination.
- Click the Administration tab then click on the Factory Defaults sub-tab.
- Under the Factory Defaults section, click on the Restore Factory Defaults button.
Of course, having to enter the correct router login/password combination makes the alternative method how to reset your router to its default factory settings useless for situations when you don’t remember what the correct password is.
