How To Access Router Without knowing Username and Password

In some cases we want to change settings of our router but suddenly we realized that we don’t know the username and password of router.Well, there is a trick , which can easy made you to login to the router with super user rights.



Just follow these steps so as to access your router without knowing username and password.

1. Open Command Prompt followed by typing cmd in run box.

To open Command Prompt

• Press window + r  and type cmd

2. In command prompt (cmd) type ipconfig and hit enter.

3. As a result there will be a Default Gateway. Copy that address.

4. Go to your web browser and paste/type that IP of gateway (example:192.168.2O.1) and hit enter.

5. After that It will ask your for username and password.

6. Now you have to go to your modem (physically) and on bottom of the modem their will be Modem Access Code.

7. Move back to your browser and type username:admin or user and then type that modem access code in the password field.

8. Congrats....you are In.


If you know about networking then you can easily reset the router username and password with the help of hyper-terminal.
Steps are:

1. Go to the router physically and restart It.

2. Move to your PC and open hyper-terminal and press ctrl+pause/Break

3. In hyper-terminal window will be Roman>.Here you have to type confreg 0x2142 (2142 is a default register value of a router)

Now type Reload

After that type copy-- startup-config running-config

This method is used by professionals, hence not known to the most of network administrators but after reading this article you will be able to access the router without knowing the actual username and password.
This cisco trick is a type of backdoor for recovery purpose.