[ajwhet]

Ok, I don't know if there's any solution to this other than to find the username and password, but I'll see if anyone can help me out.

I have a Dell 2350 router that belongs to my brother in law. We've been using it at my house for a while (unsecured) but now I'm trying to set it up and secure it in my college apartment and can't seem to get it to work.

For starters, it works fine as an unsecured router, I can get on and use the internet, but obviously I don't want everyone in my building to be able to access it and drain my bandwidth or do anything worse. I use windows vista, so I get on to the "connect to a network" screen and then I click "set up a connection or network" and then "set up a wireless router or access point." At that point it detects the router and says it can't configure it automatically so I click to configure it manually and that's when it asks for a username and password. I don't know it and my brother-in-law doesn't remember it either, we've tried several possibilities, but can't get in. I have tried to reset it, using the button on the back of the router, but it still needs the username and password.

So, does anyone know if there's a way to COMPLETELY reset it to factory settings, including the username and password or if there's some other way around it? Thanks in advance!

[parttimetechie]

Try hardreset of the router, unplug it and wait thirty seconds then plug it back in. Once its powered up, go to start, run, type in cmd, hit enter, then type in ipconfig. It will give you a seires of numbers for your default gateway. Open IE and then put that string of numbers into the address bar and that should bring up the router page. You can configure it from there.

[Dezaras]

according to this page from dell.... http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...5Chardware.htm

the hard reset switch is on the back panel, you have to stick a pen or paperclip into the whole to reset it

according to this page.... http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...5Csettings.htm

the default username and password is admin and admin, after a hard reset, open up a browser, type in 192.168.2.1 in the address bar, and then when it asked for the name and password, use admin and admin. this will take you to the router settings screens, and you can configure the router from there