How Do I Find My Wep/wpa Key?

[John12346]

I'm running a Windows Vista Home Premium computer, and a NETGEAR wireless router.

Those are the facts.

Where is the answer?

[KarpaL-TunnaL]

On the side of your router.

[CaptainBob]

What is the model number of your router? It should be on the bottom.

[Evark]

Your network administrator set it up when they set up your home network. You can't 'find it' unless you wrote it down.

If it's WEP, though, there's plenty of tutorials online that'll teach you how to crack the encryption. If you cannot find the key and nobody knows it, your router has a 'reset' button that you need to push with a paperclip or a pen or something that'll reset your router to all the defaults and you'll be able to set a new WEP/WPA passcode.

Also: sometimes the passphrase itself doesn't work when you're putting it into different computers with different NIC cards. If you encounter this problem, just put in the corresponding 64 or 128 bit Hex code and it should work perfectly.

[DragonsGrief]

Go to your internet browser.

Try typing in :
192.168.1.1

Account name and password for login is either admin/admin or whatever you changed it to.

Your 4 WEP keys should be there somewhere, not sure about WPA.

[CaptainBob]

At 5/3/08 03:44 PM, Evark wrote: Your network administrator set it up when they set up your home network. You can't 'find it' unless you wrote it down.

If he can find the model number of his router, then it easy to look up on the internet the default gateway IP address and default user name and password for logging in to the router's control panel, where it is easy to find the key. This is assuming of course that the username and password haven't been changed on the router, which is true 99.5% of the time.

[John12346]

The WEP key is the serial number on the side of the router, right?

[CaptainBob]

At 5/3/08 03:52 PM, John12346 wrote: The WEP key is the serial number on the side of the router, right?

lolno. The WEP key is basically a password for your wireless network.

[John12346]

FUCK YEAH! I GOT IT!

DragonsGrief and CaptainBob gave me the winning answers. Thanks a lot.

[Randominator]

If you've forgotten it just download WirelessKeyView. It shows you all the WEP/WPA keys you've used in the past.

Or just reset your router.