Dicko&Vacant

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Bought a reconditioned netgear wireless router off ebay, its come today, and can i bugger get it set up.

Did everything according to instructions, but when i type in the 192.168.1.1 it brings up the box, says to put admin for the first box, then for password to type " password" and it also says this on the back of the router

but it keeps saying authentication failed, and to contact administrator.

Rang virgin, they want nothing to do with it and wont help ( obviously )

So wondering if anyone on here can help out?

Its a netgear rangemax WNR854T

someone please help

Sarah

pete mcrash

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yeh........e-bay.......cheap stuff.................

Dangerous Malcolm..

I've got the same router but I'm with Sky unfortunately.

pau1rs

try restoring it to factory settings using the reset button,,

try this twice and see what hapens,,,

had the same today with a netgear router, reset it but still wouldn`t log on... tried a second time and worked...

pete mcrash

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i've got netgear 108mbps wireless jobbie.....(dg834gt).......sat doing nowt in a draw.....got the load up disc if u want to try it...........

Tazz88

Try What paul said if u didnt no reset button is on the back lol hold it down for like 2 seconds untill lights flash then basicly just set it all up

BigErn

mine is admin/admin or try admin/administrator

Dicko&Vacant

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ok thanks ill give it a go now see what happens

Ginge !

have you turned off the pc, modem and router,,, then turn on the modem, then the router and then finally the pc

when i got a new pc i couldnt get wireless modem to work,, tired all what you done then just gave up and put it in a box, a few weeks ago i tried again, searched on the net and someone sugested the turning on order has to be done or it wont work, i gave it a go and im typing from my powerbook g4 on wireless right now !!!

Dicko&Vacant

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yeah i did it int he right order

this is the message im getting

"The server 192.168.1.1 at NETGEAR WNR854T requires a username and password.
Warning: This server is requesting that your username and password be sent in an insecure manner (basic authentication without a secure connection)."

pete mcrash

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.........when i re-do mine the first thing it says is "dont use admin as a password"..................

Ginge !

im sure its connect all up,,,, then turn on the modem from the switch let all the lights sort them selves out,, then the modem and let that sort it out and then finally the pc and then see what happens

pau1rs

same as i got,, just reset to restore to factory settings, then should work with the details on the back of the router,

it it doesnt work 1st time, try again lol

Zetecfiesta

mine is exactly the same but i got mine from virgin!! tried every combo of passwords i can think of, admin, password, administrator everything and it just doesnt work reset it numerous times as well!!

Thrush

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As Ginge said, you need to turn everything off and then back on one at a time (router then modem then PC) as LAN networks aren't quite as UPnP as they claim! Specially with Windows!

Now I pressume you are getting this message when you type in the 192.xxxxx url?



But it's not accepting the username/password combo you are trying, am I right?

If so, then as paul1rs says, you might need to try and reset it, as the stock username and password probably haven't been cleared correctly, if at all.

But before doing a hard reset, try using the default username/password. By default, the default username is [/b]admin[/b] and the default password can be any of the following : password, pass, 1234 or user

If none of the above work, then it's time to try a hard reset, as follows;

• Press the reset button on the back until the test light blinks. This takes about 10 seconds. (To avoid accidental resets, the small button is recessed. Use a pen or paperclip to access it.)
• Release the button
• Wait for the router to reboot
• Try to log in with the default password (username : admin / password : password)

If the router was not cleared, try these additional steps AFTER the router has finished rebooting;

• Unplug the router's power.
• Press and hold the reset button. While the button is held down, reconnect router's power.
• Continue to hold the reset button for 20 seconds after reconnecting the power.
• Wait for the router to reboot.
• Log in with the default password.

If none of the above works - it may be borked!

But do me a favor, have a look on the bottom of the router and tell me what revision the WNR854T is - it could be something like FR314, FR318 or FV318. If it is, these routers require reloading the firmware in order to recover from a lost password. Download the most recent firmware from NETGEAR's Web site before proceeding.

Dicko&Vacant

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well its connected now, via ethernet through the modem, so gonna try and unplug it and see what happens, i reset it and i got the router wizard coming up, and its saying successful, but ill unplug it and see

Dicko&Vacant

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its saying its connected, im now not wired and it appears to be working, but its saying unsecured network so i dont want that, as i need to put a password on it so its secured? and for some reason we now have 2 connections active instead of one? lol

Thrush

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The virgin netgear routers (WGT624v3 usually) have different defualt passwords to the regular Netgear routers. Username should be virgin and the password should be password

Thrush

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When you say you have two connections active - on what? The computer? What two connections are active? The LAN (wired) and the WLAN (wifi) connections?

As for the unsecured part - you need to get into the router settings (by typing 1.2.168 blah blah into the browser) to access the router config and change settings - such as adding wifi security password

pau1rs

as thrush said,, log back into the router..

go onto wireless settings

click wep , or something to that wording, 1 st option i think

then at the bottom of it should be a button saying " generate,,

this will then give you your ssid key for the wireless for the 1st channel i believe,,

this what i did thismoring as well as i can remember ,, lol

Thrush

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cutch

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GET RID OF IT!

I have had the same one for just over a year.... i work away month on month off and weach time i am home i have to phone the fkrs in india to sort it out (which might i add has now run out and they want more money) total sh*te. cant wait to get rid of it. getting sky installed this time home and they said their router has wireless they send me and that will sort out all my probs????? hope so!

matts1

mines back in the box, few hours of head scratching, bit of shouting, popped it in the loft lol!

Dicko&Vacant

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working fantastically, and thrush - thanks a lot for the diagrams, gonna do that now

Sarah

rst in breaking

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same make router as mine, dad played with it to add another laptop and then we lost all internet . dads mate just sorted it, what a nightmare

Dicko&Vacant

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right I did what Thrush said to make it secure, now its knocked it off and its saying the settings on the computer do not match the requirements of the network and i cant get back on it, now bloody wired again

Jim Galbally

cutch, you cant blame the router if its that youve set it up WRONG can you

sky is idiot proof tho, they ship preconfigured.

Stu.H

Youve set up the WEP on the router, now you need to set it on your PC

Just put the same key in on the laptop/pc and you'll be laughing....

Jim Galbally

and go back and change it to WPA as otherwise youll never remember the sodding passphrase

danny_d21

I'd also change the 64bit to 128bit, just makes the network key longer and harder to crack too.

Or as stated above use WPA.