How do i change my pc password

paul2468

Last week the lady that lives above me knocked on my door and said that her sky network was down and could she borrow my password so she could send some documents to her place of work...i gave her my password but i am not sure if she may carry on using it......i am not sure how to now change my password, would i need to get in touch with Virgin ?....i dont know if it is me worrying but my system seems to be slower since i gave her the password....help

kwikbreaks

I depends on your router. You mentioned Virgin - do you have a Superhub?

paul2468

Not sure...a black thing with flashing lights...2 laptops and a desktop pc run from it.

kwikbreaks

I'm guessing it is

Try this through a wired device

Click on http://192.168.0.1/ and you should see a predominantly red login screen.

Default user is admin and default password changeme - I'm guessing you've never changed them.

Click on the big red friendly WiFi button and you will get the WiFi settings where you can set a new passphrase. Try to make it a mix of characters numbers and symbols and fairly long. You'll then need to change the passord to that on your WiFi devices or use the WPS button pressing you did when you first connected them.

Hopefully this link will work for WPS setup...

http://help.virginmedia.com/system/selfservice.controller?CMD=VIEW_ARTICLE&ARTICLE_ID=345038&CURRENT_CMD=SEARCH&CONFIGURATION=1002&PARTITION_ID=1&USERTYPE=1&LANGUAGE=en&COUNTY=us&VM_CUSTOMER_TYPE=Cable

There are various alternatives - check the VM help pages.

Figment

Generic instructions - post details of your router for more specific help

• Log into your router's web interface (use a wired connection if possible, otherwise you will be disconnected from the router as soon as you apply the new password)
• Find the wireless security section
• It will show the encryption method being used, (WEP/WPA2 etc) if WEP, you should seriously consider changing to WPA2.
• Under this you should see your wireless password (may be called WEP/WPA key / passphrase / Network Security Key) - Change this making it as complicated as possible by using a mix of upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols.
• Save/Apply the changes.

You will need to enter the new passphrase on all wireless devices

macman

Really not a good idea to hand out your wireless key to anyone knocking on the door. Are you aware that doing this also gives her access to any files that you are sharing on your network?

paul2468

Thanks .....will do that.