Is the router configured?
For starters, let's define: was your Wi-Fi router configured? If not, and at the moment it does not distribute the Internet, even without a password, you can use the instructions on this site.The second option is to configure the router to you someone helped, but I did not install a password, or some special setup is required for your Internet provider, but it is enough to connect the router to the wires correctly so that all connected computers have access to the Internet.
It is about protecting our wireless Wi-Fi network in the second case and will be discussed.
Go to the settings of the router
Password on a Wi-Fi router D-Link DIR-300 can be both from a computer or laptop connected via wire or with a wireless connection and from a tablet or smartphone. The process itself is the same in all these cases.
- Run any browser on your device, anything connected to the router
- In the address bar, enter the following: 192.168.0.1 and go to this address. If a page with a login and password query has not opened, try instead of the above figures to enter 192.168.1.1.
Password request for logging in settings
When requesting a login and password, you should enter the standard D-Link values for: admin in both fields. It may turn out that the ADMIN / ADMIN pair is not suitable, it is likely that if you called the wizard to configure the router. If you have any connection with a person who set up a wireless router, you can ask him which password to access the router settings it installed. Otherwise, you can reset the router to the factory settings with the RESET button on the reverse side (press and hold 5-10 seconds, then release and wait for a minute), but then the connection settings are reset, if any.
Next, we will consider the situation when authorization was successful, and we entered the router settings page, which in D-Link DIR-300 different versions may look like this:
Installing a password on Wi-Fi
To put a password on Wi-Fi on the firmware DIR-300 NRU 1.3.0 and other 1.3 (blue interface), click "Configure manually", then select the "Wi-Fi" tab, and already in it - the Security Settings tab.
Installing the password on Wi-Fi D-Link DIR-300
In the "Network Authentication" field, it is recommended to stop your choice on WPA2-PSK - this authentication algorithm is the most resistant for hacking and most likely, no one will be able to hack your password even with a big desire.
In the "PSK Encryption key" field, you must specify the desired password on Wi-Fi. It should consist of Latin characters and numbers, and their number must be at least 8. Click "Change". After that, a notification should appear that the settings have been changed and the offer to click "Save". Do it.
For new D-link DIR-300 firmware NRU 1.4.x (in dark colors) The password installation process is almost no different: at the bottom of the router administration page, click "Advanced Settings", after which you select "Security Settings" on the Wi-Fi tab.
Installing a password on a new firmware
In the Count "Network Authentication" specify "WPA2-PSK", in the PSK Encryption key, we write the desired password, which should consist of at least 8 Latin characters and numbers. After clicking "Change", you will find yourself on the next page of the settings, on which the above will be prompted to save the changes. Click "Save". Password on Wi-Fi is installed.
Video instruction
Features when installing a password via Wi-Fi connection
If you set up a password setting, connecting to Wi-Fi, then at the time of making a change, the connection can be broken and accessing the router and the Internet interrupted. And when you try to connect, a message will be issued that "network parameters saved on this computer do not meet the requirements of this network." In this case, you should go to the Network and Common Access Control Center, then in managing wireless networks, delete your access point. After re-finding everything you need to do - specify the set password for connecting.
If the connection is broken, then after re-connections, go to the D-Link DIR-300 router administration panel and if you have a notification page that you want to save the changes, confirm them - this should be done to password on Wi-Fi No disappeared, for example, after turning off the power.