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WPA-PSK Wireless Printer

collinsc

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Posted April 9, 2011 at 8:14AM

Hi A friend has asked me to help set up their printer wirelessly. It has asked for the WPA-PSK Key, i have gone into the netgear browser and seen the password **. That is 8 characters, i assumed it would therefore be their log on which is also 8 characters. However this did not match upper or lower case.

  1. might it be longer than 8 characters? is this just a mask...
  2. Can i identify the key if it is not known?
  3. Do i just reset the key? - if so, how do i do this?

Thanks kindly

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ßeta

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Posted April 9, 2011 at 10:07AM

It's possible to extract the Key from Netgear Routers by Backing up the Router Config and then opening the Cfg File created in Wordpad.

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collinsc

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Posted April 9, 2011 at 12:07PM

thanks, so how do i do this... are you saying i can do this now, now that the WPA-PSK has already been set a while back...

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ßeta

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Posted April 9, 2011 at 12:21PM

Yes.

You just login to your Friends Netgear Router choose Backup Settings from the left hand side options and choose the location where you want the backup file.

Next open the saved CFG file in Wordpad and look for a line:

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The one in Yellow.

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Strawballs

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Posted April 9, 2011 at 6:38PM

If it is an ISP supplied router the passkey will be on the bottom of the router.

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