How to Do Netgear Genie Password Recovery?

You can conveniently control your Netgear router or extender by accessing the admin dashboard with the admin login password. You can quickly retrieve your Netgear login password if you’ve forgotten it or if it has changed. You may use the web interface to retrieve your Netgear Genie password by reading this article.

How to Recover Netgear Genie Password?

Remember that you can only use this option if you have changed the admin password for your Netgear Genie login and enabled the password recovery feature. The ways to recover the admin password are as follows:

Make sure that every connection is secure first. Both the host router and the Netgear extension need to be fully booted up and connected correctly.
Now, type mywifiext.net into the address bar of a browser. The network of the extender should be linked to the PC you are using.
To access the login window, press the Enter key.
Press the Cancel button.
Enter the serial number of your WiFi extender now. It is located on the side panel, rear, or bottom of the extension.
Click “Continue.”
Respond to the security questions now. Make sure you input the same responses as when you enabled the password recovery feature.
The administrator password for the extension will appear on the screen when you click Continue.

Here’s how to recover your Netgear Genie setup password. Now you may access your extender’s settings by logging in with this password.

What If I Did Not Enable Password Recovery Feature?

You cannot use the preceding procedures to recover a forgotten password if the password recovery option is not enabled. The only thing you can do in that situation is to reset your Netgear wireless extender.

All of the extender’s personalized data is erased upon reset. This contains your customized WiFi settings, saved passwords, and other information.

You should start the Netgear WiFi extender setup process over after the reset. You will learn how to reset your Netgear WiFi range extender in the next step.

How to Reset Netgear Extender to Recover Password?

When resetting the Netgear extender, unplug all of its cords. It should not be connected to any devices. Just the power cable should be left in place.
Press and hold the Reset button within the hole with a pointed item.
After roughly ten seconds, you can let go of the button.

By deleting the customized settings and returning the Netgear extender to its original specifications, this resets the device.

To begin the WiFi extender installation process from the beginning, log in to the extender using the default password on mywifiext.net setup.

In Conclusion

In this blog post, we explained how to use your Netgear extender’s web interface to recover your Netgear Genie password. Additionally, we have provided you with instructions on what to do in the event that you have not activated the password recovery feature. It is anticipated that this post has been helpful to you. We are concluding this educational article here with the same hope.