Netgear R4500 – N900 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router Manual Do Utilizador

Erase

Under some circumstances (for example, if you move the router to a different network or if 
you have forgotten the password), you might want to erase the configuration and restore the 
factory default settings. 

You can use either use the Reset button on the back of the router (see 

page 117), or you can click the Erase button in this screen.

Erase sets the user name to admin, the password to password, and the LAN IP address to 
192.168.1.1, and enables the router’s DHCP.

Set Password

This feature allows you to change the default password that is used to log in to the router with 
the user name admin. 

This is not the same as changing the password for wireless access. The label on the bottom 
of your router shows your unique wireless network name (SSID) and password for wireless 
access (see 

on page 11).

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Select Advanced > Administration > Set Password:

Type the old password, and type the new password twice in the fields on this screen.

If you want to be able to recover the password, select the Enable Password Recovery 

check box.

Click Apply to save your settings.

Password Recovery

NETGEAR recommends that you enable password recovery if you change the password for 
the router’s user name of admin. Then you have an easy way to recover the password if it is