4 things you can do if you forgot your Wi-Fi password

 

Forgetting the password is a frustrating matter, in any case, whether you forget the password of your important accounts or even the password, it may be because you have not connected to the Internet for some time via Wi-Fi in your home, so you forget the password that you set for the wireless, and often the reason for forgetting is your choice of a complex password Which is difficult to remember easily, but if this router is in your home or you have previously connected to this Wi-Fi point from other devices, do not worry about this matter. Let me tell you in this article about 4 things that you can do in case you forget the password so that you finish reading this Article and wifi connection to your device.

 

 View the Wi-Fi password saved in the devices

 

Because you may connect to any Wi-Fi network on your personal device, then your device automatically saves this password for that network, and then you forget this password later, or for any other reason, you cannot know the Wi-Fi network that your personal device is connected to.

 

You will open the Windows RUN menu by pressing the Windows key + R and typing ncpa.cpl.

Then a list of Wi-Fi networks your device is connected to will open.

 

You will right-click on the Wi-Fi network you are connected to and select Status.

 

From the window in front of you, you will choose Wireless Properties.

 

A new window will appear in front of you with the Connection tab and the Security tab. You will choose Security.

 

A window will appear in front of you, and there is the password for the network you are connected to, but it is hidden in the form of dots, and to show it, you will find a small box next to the word Show Characters, select it.

 

You will now see the password that you use to connect to the current Wi-Fi network.

 

From the router settings page

 

This is the best way, but its steps seem somewhat many, but we will try to summarize the matter, in this step, we will enter the router settings page and store all the router settings inside it, and this means that the Wi-Fi password is stored in it and you can view and change it if you want, but the settings page differs from the router to another due to different manufacturing companies, but in any case, you can take a tour inside the settings page that will appear to you until you discover the password.

 

And to enter the settings page after you connected the router to the computer via an ethernet cable, you can go to any internet browser on the computer, then in the address bar you write the router's IP, usually 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1, then press Enter to ask you for the password, so you enter the default word For all routers, "admin" and then press Login to the router page. (If I tell you that the registration information is wrong, look at the bottom of the router where you find the login information)

 

On the settings page, as I indicated, you will start searching for the Wi-Fi password, and in my case, on the TE Data router, by clicking on the Network section from the side menu, then WLAN, then Security, where you found on the right side the field containing the Wi-Fi password WPA Passphrase, in this case, If you cannot, you can make a phone call to the customer service of your internet service provider.

 

Connect to Wi-Fi via WPS!

 

Perhaps most users are not aware of this matter, so you can connect to the wireless router without the need to enter any password, in the event that it supports the WPS feature. By activating this feature, you can from any device connect to the wireless router without entering a password, but let me tell you that this step will reduce the protection of The router because anyone else close to the router can connect to it without you knowing, but if you are forced to use Wi-Fi, you can activate it.

 

All you have to do is search in one of the aspects of the router for the button responsible for activating the WPS feature, so you press it once and then notice that it has been activated through its green “light” on the router interface. Well, let us now connect to the router from the phone without entering the password traffic.

 

Now you will go to your Android phone, then go to Settings, then click on Wi-Fi, then click on the menu button on the phone, then through this menu, press the WPS push button option, then the phone will now search for the nearest activated router that has WPS, and it will By connecting to it, this will happen in a few seconds, after which it will connect to the Wi-Fi point directly without the need to enter a password.

 

Reset the router

 

 This is the last method when all previous attempts fail and you completely forget to remember the Wi-Fi password, here you can do a factory reset for the router to come as it was in its initial state, and thus you can enter your new settings in the router including setting a new password for Wi-Fi, and to do so All you have to do is use a "pin" to click the Reset button on one of the router's sides for a few seconds until you notice that the lights on the router's interface are off and back on, which means that the router has been reset.

 

 You can now, from any other device, whether a computer or a phone, turn on Wi-Fi, where you find among the names of nearby Wi-Fi points the name of your router, so you can connect to it without a password, because you will then open any browser and repeat step number two that we explained above, where you enter the page The router settings, and then you start by entering the username and password that the Internet company sent you when you signed up for the Internet for the first time, then you can change the Wi-Fi settings such as the name and password.