Motoxrdude

My friend has a problem. He has wireless for his laptop that was setup for him. He was never told the password for the encryption, but it was stored in his computer, like it was set up so that the computer would remember the encryption. Anyways, he reformated his comp and he doesnt know that password. It was set up by his cousin and his cousin doesnt remember it either. So he doesnt want to reset his router because it will never work for him. IMO he can never can get the damn thing working, and neither can I, so what i am asking:

Is there a way for him to figure out the encryption password without having to reset his router? If there isnt a way, then i guess ill have to reset it for him, but i dread not to because it doesnt like going threw setup. The computer never recognizes the HUB. Thanks...

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suprasteve

if he doesn't have a password for changing the router's options, he can get into the router and change all the encryption settings in there, other than that the only option is resetting it

DCIScouts

I believe that even with the password to get into the router settings, you still need the original encrytion to change it. It's worth a shot anyway, but I have a feeling that you will have to reformat...

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lee101

you should be able to simply log into the router config, go to the encryption page then on all the routers i have setup it shows the encryption key there, but if it doesn;t just add a new one, i doubt you would need the original key just to change it

Lee

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Trizoy

And if you dont have a password to login to the router, do a hard reboot. Deletes all info.

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Motoxrdude

He has a linksys wireless router. It is encrypted, and after he reformated, the computer lost the data about the encryption, IMO it forgot the password, and no one knows. I have tried to reset the router as in reconfigure it, but the computer doesnt even recognize the router, and i have used 2 computers. And if you do a hard reboot on the router the wireless goes down and you have to reconfigure it for it to work.

All i am asking is, is it possible to find out the encryption password so that he doesnt have to buy a new router?

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Trizoy

Are you a complete idiot? You will need to USE A LAN CABLE to connect to the router. You login with //192.168.1.1 or //192.168.2.1 It may ask for a password. IF you cant guess the password, then do a HARD REBOOT. (this will delete everything) Then when you login via the LAN cable connection there is no password.. Then reset up the the router, and write down the ecryption key.

To answer your question YES, there is a way to break the encryption, but I am sure nobody here will show you how... It is difficult, and requires multiple OS's on multiple Laptops (and other tools aswell)

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apj101

not sure any amount of restarting will do that, unless you open up the case

dragon2309

lol, dont buy a new router, the necryption is onyl on wireless, obviously, so just hook up a laptop/computer with an ehtherenet cable, get into the router through there and take off the encryption, bang, done.

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Motoxrdude

Already tried that.... No computer recognizes the router.... We even had the "qeek" squad come, they reomended a new router...

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