Quick Reference Guide

Protecting Your Network 5-1
Chapter 5
Protecting Your Network
This chapter describes how to use the basic firewall features of the DG824M Wireless ADSL
Modem Gateway to protect your network.
Protecting Access to Your DG824M Wireless ADSL Modem
Gateway
For security reasons, the gateway 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 gateway User Name and password for the gateway Password. You
can use procedures below to change the gateway'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 gateway 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 gateway.
Figure 5-1: Log in to the gateway