You may have heard in the News that TalkTalk has recently had a security breach whereby their users' routers WiFi passwords have been hacked. You might want to change the WiFi password of your EE Brightbox router in case a similar attack is made against EE's routers. It is a good idea anyway to not use the default password as supplied with the router & which you will find on the label affixed to the router. You can do this by following these steps, which apply to all versions of the Brightbox:
- Browse to http://192.168.1.1 (this is the default IP address of your router) on a computer or device that is currently connected to your router (either wired or wirelessly).
- The router login screen appears. Enter "admin" as the user name and its password as printed on the product label of your router. The router's web interface appears.
- Click on the "Basic" tab follows by in the LH margin. The Wireless Settings page appears.
- At or near near the foot of the page you will see in the Wireless Password box the default WiFi password in clear as printed on the product label of your router. Here overtype the new wireless password that you want to use. The password must consist of 8 to 63 alphanumeric characters or minus ('-').
- For a Brightbox 2 you will see the Wireless Password box repeated under both the 2.4 & 5 GHz Settings. Change both of them. They don't need to be the same but usually are.
- Click Save Settings.
- Reconnect your wireless devices to the router using the new wireless settings.
If you have the TG589 router, you can find the equivalent steps covered in Configuring your TG589 router services.
It may be wise to also change the router admin password by following Change admin password.
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