NETGEAR RAX50 how to reset the admin password
When you forgot the admin password and had enabled password reset on the router.
Steps
- Open http://www.routerlogin.net and click the Cancel button on the login window.
- Enter the serial number of the router, which is on the router label, and click Continue.
- Enter the answers to your two security questions and click Continue.
- Type a new admin password, confirm it, set new security questions and answers, and click Next.
- Click the Login button and log in with the new password.
Password reset works only if it was enabled earlier: ADVANCED > Administration > Set Password, select Enable Password Reset, choose two security questions and click Apply.
Source: Manage Your Router, Reset the admin password Source: Manage Your Router, Reset the admin password, pp. 96, 97
Other RAX50 procedures
- How to reset the router with the Reset buttonWhen you want to return the router to factory default settings and cannot or do not want to use the web interface.
- How to reset the router from the web interfaceWhen you can log in and want to erase the configuration.
- How to connect a device with the WPS buttonWhen a device supports WPS and you want it on the router's WiFi without typing the password.
- How to change the WiFi name (SSID)When you want a new network name for the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz band.
- How to change the WiFi passwordWhen you want a new WiFi password or security option.
- How to update the router firmwareWhen the router pages show a firmware message, or you want to check for new firmware.
- How to upload a firmware file to the routerWhen you want a specific firmware version, or the router fails to update automatically.
- How to set up the router as a WiFi access pointWhen you want this router to add WiFi to a network that another router manages.
- How to turn off the router LEDsWhen the LEDs are too bright.
Sources
- User Manual, Nighthawk AX6 6-Stream AX5400 WiFi Router RAX50 and RAX50v2. NETGEAR, Inc. Document 202-12630-02, revision January 2023, 2023-01, 160 pages, en-US. downloads.netgear.com (PDF). Listed on the manufacturer's support page. Retrieved 13 November 2026.
Page numbers are the numbers printed in the manual. Where this page and the manual differ, follow the manual.