{"id":332,"date":"2012-05-27T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2012-05-27T14:48:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T14:48:46","slug":"how-to-reset-your-lost-router-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-reset-your-lost-router-password\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Reset Your Lost Router Password"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-333 alignleft\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Router\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Router.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"132\" \/>I received an email the other day asking me how to reset a router&#8217;s username and password back to the default username and password.\u00a0I thought this was a great question and worthy of a post.<\/p>\n<p>In order to get your router back to the original settings, you must push in the reset button (usually on the back of the router) for somewhere between 10 and 30 seconds depending on the router.\u00a0 You may need a pin or something small to push in the button, because it can be recessed.\u00a0 Once you have reset the router, the username and password will be changed to the defaults, admin and password, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>One thing you must remember is that resetting the router will change all of the router settings back to the factory settings.\u00a0 This means you will lose all of the changes you made since you got the router.\u00a0 Make sure to write down any things you&#8217;ve changed, so you can change them back after the reset.\u00a0 Also, I recommend updating to the latest firmware after the reset.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email the other day asking me how to reset a router&#8217;s username and password back to the default username and password.\u00a0I thought this was a great question and worthy of a post. In order to get your router back to the original settings, you must push in the reset button (usually on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[155,156,154],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","tag-forgot-router-password","tag-lost-router-password","tag-reset-router-password"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}