To provide access to the Internet and local networks at home, you must use routers. To protect your connection from neighbors and other passersby passing by accident, you need to use the password for this connection. In this article, we will consider how to put a password on a router.
How to configure routers
They are mainly conducted in browsers. This can be done on any device that is connected to the Internet using this router. It is better to carry out this setting on the device that is connected to the global network by wire, because when performing this operation on equipment using wireless network technology, it will disconnect from it when the password is changed.
Asus Setup
We type in the address bar of any browser the following: 192.168.1.1, confirm the entry by pressing Enter. After that, you will be prompted to enter your login and password. And as one, and as the other, admin is used by default. If you are not logged in, please refer to the documentation for your router. It can also be located on a sticker that is attached to the bottom of the device.
How to put a password on the Asus router? After logging in, select Wireless in the left panel, located in the Advanced settings section. Go to the configuration section of this network. From the list, select the authentication method (the most reliable is WPA2-personal) and enter the password in the WPA-PSK key field, which can contain Latin letters, special characters and numbers. Actually, this is the setting of the password.
With the authentication method recommended above, the latter should be 8 characters or more. To save the settings, click on “Apply”. In case of incorrect connection of any devices to this network, you need to go into their network settings, delete this network, after which the correct settings must be determined automatically.
Configure Tp-link
There are few differences from the Asus settings in this case. Let's see how to put a password on a Tp-link router. Here, to access the settings in the browser, we type 192.168.0.1 or tplinklogin.net. If you use the last address, the router should be disconnected from the global network at the moment.
The username and password are the same as those of the previously considered router model. After entering, select Wireless in the left pane from the "Network" section. Click on “Wireless Security”. We put a point near WPA-PSK / WPA2-PSK. As already noted, this method is considered one of the most reliable. Encryption leave AES.
In the “PSK Password” field below, enter the password with the same characters as “Asus”. It can contain a maximum of 63 characters, at least the same. After completing these steps, you need to save the changes.
We examined how to put a password on a Tp-link router. To change it, you need to do the same actions.
D-link setup
How to put a password on a D-link router? Here, for different models, the input can be through the address in the browser 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1. By default, the “password-login” connection is the same as that of the previously considered brands of routers. If they do not match, look for a sticker attached to the bottom of this device.
Further settings are slightly different for different models of this manufacturer. Let's consider how to put the password on the dir-300 router as the most popular model of this manufacturer. Select the Wi-Fi setting located on the left panel. Click on "Manual tuning". We choose the same authentication method as for other brands. We fill in the “Encryption Key PSK” by entering a password, which must include 8 characters or more, among which Cyrillic letters should not be found. Save changes.
Zyxel Setup
This brand is quite popular in our country. In the address bar, type 192.168.1.1. Here the link “login-password” is not the same: the login is the same as the previously considered brands, and the password is 1234. If this does not work, we look for information in the documentation or on the sticker. After entering the login-password, confirm the input Enter or click on "Input".
Go to the “Wi-Fi Network”, select “Connection”. Here we set the network name (SSID) (it is set in other brands of routers, usually it is automatically determined by the latter). It can be tailored to your taste. Save the settings by clicking on “Accept”. Further in the same section we select "Security". As an authentication method (authentication) install WPA-PSK / WPA2-PSK. The format of the network key is ASCII.
We carried out all these actions in order to answer the question “How to put a password on the Wi-Fi“ Ziksel ”router?” To do this, in the tab "Network Key (ASCII)" enter any password typed in non-Cyrillic letters from 8 characters or more. The main thing is not to overdo it, otherwise you will get tired of entering a large number of numbers on all devices that will receive the Internet distributed by this router. Save the settings by clicking on “Accept”.
These brands of routers have a different version of the firmware, which has some differences. Entrance is the same. The settings panel is located at the bottom. We click on the wi-fi icon. Go to the tab "Access Point", there we enter the SSID, which will be displayed when connected to this network. In the "Network protection" field, select the same authentication method as for other brands. We set the password in the "Network Key" field, which is set of the same type as the other routers in question. Save the settings by clicking on “Apply”.
Customize Huawei
In contrast to the previously considered models of various brands of routers, Huawei are the most moody to enter a bunch of "login-password". So, the default router address is 192.168.100.1. Next, we enter different login / password values to select the necessary:
- telecomadmin / NWTF5x% RaK8mVbD;
- telecomadmin / nE7jA% 5m;
- telecomadmin / admintelecom;
- root / admin;
- telecomadmin / NWTF5x%.
The most common is the third option. However, users of these routers may have a surprise and need to sort out more than one version of this bundle.
Go to the WLAN tab. Fill in the network name, in the authentication method, select WPA2Pre-SharedKey. In the field of the same name without "2" enter the password and click on Apply. This is the answer to the question "How to put a password on a Huawei router?".
Saving in this router is again done differently than in others. After any changes, especially after entering / changing the password, you need to go to the System Tools tab located in the horizontal panel, then go to the left panel, where we select the Configuration File and click on Save Configuration.
Finally
Thus, the answer to the question "How to put a password on the router?" for many brands and models is similar. It provides that the IP address of the device in question is entered in the address bar of the user's favorite browser, then the login-password link is entered, which is the most difficult for the Huawei router. To set up a wireless network, you must select a reliable authentication method. The password for the router is necessary for several reasons, one of which is that you impede unauthorized access to the device that provides Internet access for home equipment that you own for which you pay. In addition, the prohibition of such access provides greater speed, because it is provided by the provider on all devices alone.