User's Manual

Protecting Your Network 5-1
August 2005
Chapter 5
Protecting Your Network
This chapter describes how to use the basic firewall features of the DG834PN 108 Mbps
RangeMax
TM
Wireless ADSL Modem Router to protect your network.
Protecting Access to Your DG834PN 108 Mbps RangeMax
TM
Wireless ADSL Modem Router
For security reasons, the wireless ADSL modem router has its own user name and password. Also,
after a period of inactivity for a set length of time, the administrator login will automatically
disconnect. When prompted, enter admin for the wireless ADSL modem router User Name and
password for the wireless ADSL modem router Password. You can use procedures below to
change the wireless ADSL modem router's password and the amount of time for the
administrator’s login timeout.
Note: The user name and password are not the same as any user name or password your may use
to log in to your Internet connection.
NETGEAR recommends that you change this password to a more secure password. The ideal
password should contain no dictionary words from any language, and should be a mixture of both
upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols. Your password can be up to 30 characters.
How to Change the Built-In Password
1. Log in to the wireless ADSL modem router at its default LAN address of http://192.168.0.1
with its default User Name of admin, default password of password, or using whatever
Password and LAN address you have chosen for the wireless ADSL modem router.
Figure 5-1: Log in to the wireless ADSL modem router