How do I get into the router configuration?

There are a large number of users who have never tried to access the router they have at home and that is in charge of providing them with the network connection. Although it is true that many are not even interested in computing, a router is a device that we should know about, and above all configure the password and access user as well as the access key and the Wi-Fi network.

Never know who try to steal us Internet from outside or a neighbor, once connected to the network even could access our router without us knowing account and make us a quite essential task. And it is that many routers of factory have a easy access of admin/admin as user/password

In case you don't know, the router is the apparatus or device that is in charge of providing us with the connection and access to the Internet. This allows our computers, mobile phones or Tablets to connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi or via a wired connection. There are router ADSL, fiber optic and even 4G routers that use the mobile data network.

In all of , without exception, we will be able to enter with the steps that we will see later on. But the most essential thing is to know what we can do on a router, since just as if of a PC is treated, has a firmware inside it that lets us access and alter internal parameters of the network itself thanks to an interface from our Internet browser.

Access the router step by step
We are going to approach this tutorial so that it is valid for any router regardless of the manufacturer thereof, whether we have bought it or whether it has been delivered by our internet provider. Absolutely all they work likewise except very specific cases like.

previous requirements
We can consider some previous requirements already before attempting to access the router certain obvious and some not so .

Be linked in our WiFi

The first is to be connected with our PC, smartphone, tablet or whatever to the router. In what way? Because by an Ethernet cable or just with the Wi-Fi connection.

Today, you can access the ip https //192.168.l.254




This is quite logical, since the access will be performed through IP from the internal network. We not be able to do it connected to our mobile's 4G or by bluetooth, although certain offer this possibility only for a first network configuration.