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CNET How To - How to quickly setup a home router via its Web-interface

2013-03-26
hi guys don't go here and today and show you how to set up your home rather like a bro basically the way I do it and my way is a four-letter word T H a and T or that not these but that so let's start first up T t is for TSA which is another corneum and don't worry keep your clothes on and hold on to that sharp object we are not at the airport tsa here stand for throw stuff away now let's see what you can flow away of course first is the plastic wrapping I don't know why we actually need this so up it go straight to the ocean and then we have the CD I mean who use CDs anymore and then we have this quick start up guy seriously the start up is so much quicker without it so in the end we all need just the router itself the power adapter and the included network cable in fact we need to taper for the job so I bring in here another one and the box you can go to you can throw all of these away and by the way why throw away I mean you recycle them now we can move on to the second part age eight stand for hooking up the hard way now hooking up the hardware is actually very simple first you have to connect the router to the power using the power adapter if you cannot do this you have a more problem than even I can solve the second is that you hook up the routers Ethernet port on one port to a Internet source this port right here is called one port because is supposed to connect to a wide area network which is with the long wide web or the internet at home it hooked this port to your DSL or cable modem but here I have to hook it to the CNET copper network with his wife that you this long cable the next step is this LAN port is click on LAN port because LAN stand a local area network which means you can connect devices and computer to the router using network cable in this case I'm gonna connect this macbook pro now this is the same for most of the router on the market all of them almost all of them come with one one port and for LAN port now let's move on the next part which is a and as for access the web interface now it's called the web interface because you can use any web browser for the job such as Chrome Firefox Safari or the other thing for Microsoft now this part can be done with any router on the market except for those from Apple and that's because Apple is the only company that does not provide a web interface for their routers to access a routers web interface we need two things the routers default IP address and the login information it's quite easy to find out the router default IP address that's because almost all the time they come in this format 192.168.1 with X being either 0 1 2 3 10 or 11 or on a computer that connected to the router you can find out by going to the command prompt and use the command ipconfig here the default gateway IP address is the IP we want now for this particular router the default IP address is 192.168.1.1 so let's type that in the address bar of the web browser now most of the time the username is admin and the password can be anything like admin the word password the word default 1 2 3 4 or left blank in this case I know the password is admin the same as the user and voila now we have access to the railroad's web interface we can move on to the last part of this guy the second T which stand for tinkering now different vendors have a different web interface but they are all very similar and most of all they're very easy to figure out if you speak English which means if I can do it I'm sure you can for example here with this particular one you can follow the wizard show you step and step or you can go to network to change the basic setting of your network or you can go to while is 2.4 to change the 2.4 gigahertz Network I'll go to wireless 5 gigahertz to change the setting of the 5 Iike heard what is network very simple now the reason I will encourage you to tinker away because you can always reset the rarer to the default factory setting you can also backup the existing setting and then restart that later to reset to the default setting you can use a web interface or you can use a small pin like this and press on the reset button of the router all of them has one just press it in here for about 10 second and the router will go back to the default setting and that's mean you don't have to worry if something goes wrong for more detail information on this guy make sure to check out the riot para ser comm where you'll also find a list of the defo I P address and default login information for more vendors on the market and after that you're allowed to get yourself a customized P shirt that reads I am Pro because I know I approve that message and that's because I am don't know and for the very first time this has been a quick guy on that from seductive you
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