Recently, in the techie Q&A column in the New York Times, someone asked about changing the password in their router. Due to space limitations, the answer by J. D. Biersdorfer was short, too short.

I'm stumped. I've reset the router multiple times, unplugged everything (computer, modem, router) and started it back up, and I still can't get to the setup page for 192.168.1.1. I've verified that ...

Most routers come with some kind of administrative website that you access by typing their IP address into your favorite web browser and entering your login and password—which you changed from ...

Each router has a different set of default factory settings. The default username and password for each router is “admin“. The default IP address for each router is 192.168.1.1 Check the router’s ...