Enabling Your Routers Remote Management

Using the Remote Management menu, you can authorize a user on the Internet to configure, update and check the status of the router.

Why you can use remote Router Management:

• You need help when someone wants to remotely administer your router configuration.
• You are solving someone else's router problems, such as a friend or relative.
• You are the administrator of a remote network.
• You want to configure the router via the Internet.

Remote management is disabled by default. Since an attacker could attempt to crack the router password, it is recommended that you disable remote management after use, so that the router cannot be administered by the WAN.

To See The Router Password:

Never use remote management unless the router password has been changed by default! To change your password:

• Enter http://192.168.0.1 (on some router models, http://192.168.1.1) in a browser. The login screen of the router appears.
• The username is always admin and the default password is password. (On some older routers, it's 1234.) The router connects you.
• Click Maintenance> Set Password.
• In the Old password box, type the default password.
• In the New password and Repeat new password boxes, enter the new password. Write it where you will not lose it, as in the installation instructions of your router or in the configuration sheet of your ISP.

Unlike many "expert" tips, there are few practical risks to writing passwords. Compare this with the downside, in months, to discover that you don't remember it. Passwords shouldn't be too simple: use characters, numbers, and symbols. It's best not to use names or dates that seem easy to remember: your birthday, your dog's name, your username backward, etc.

Well: kB? 3ccsiiz $$ 8 or 4 * 8zbmn-BXY

OK: Nearmi $$ or fAsTnetttter

Low: cutekid or me or stoneforever

• Click on Apply.

To activate remote management:

1. Connect to the router if you haven't already done so.
2. Click Advanced> Remote Management.
3. Select Enable remote management.
4. Decide if you want to allow the router to access one computer or multiple computers in a range of IP addresses. (You probably shouldn't give everyone access unless you have a remote connection and a dynamic IP address.)
5. If you are only granting access to one computer, select This computer only and enter the IP of the computer.
6. If you want to access a range of IP addresses instead, select the range of IP addresses and type the start and end of the range in the From and To boxes. In this example, the starting IP is 68.205.2.56 and l The final IP is 68.205.2.65.
7. Leave the port number on the 8080 unless it is protected by a corporate firewall blocking certain ports. Ports that are generally not blocked are for outgoing HTTP and HTTPS traffic, port numbers 80 and 443.
8. Click on Apply.
9. Write down the IP address indicated in the Remote Management Address field. This is the address, followed by the port number, which provides remote access to the router. For example, in this example http://68.203.2.57:8080.

To access your router from the Internet, enter the WAN IP of your router in the browser, followed by a colon (:) and a port number. For example, if your external IP is 134.177.0.123 and you are using port 8080, enter http://134.177.0.123:8080.