3. Protecting Your Network

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This chapter describes how to use the basic firewall features of the router to protect your network.

Note: For information about the advanced content filtering features port forwarding and port triggering, see “Port Forwarding and Port

Triggering” on page 46.

Protecting Access to Your Mobile Broadband Wireless-N Router

For security reasons, the router has its own user name and password. Also, after a period of inactivity, the login automatically disconnects. The user name and password are not the same as a user name or password you might 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.

Changing the Built-In Password

1.To log in to the router, type http://www.routerlogin.net in the address field of your Internet browser. Enter admin for the user name and your password (or the default, password).

Note: If you changed the password and do not remember what it is, you can reset the router to its factory default settings. See “Restoring the

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NETGEAR MBRN3000-100NAS Protecting Access to Your Mobile Broadband Wireless-N Router, Changing the Built-In Password