How To Hack Router Username & Password Using Cmd In [currentyear]

Wifi hacking means you can get free internet. Most people aren’t satisfied with this, they want more.

Hacking router username & password means you can control the internet. Stop overusing wifi they you want, block specific devices etc.

Here in this article, I will show you step by step tutorial to hack a wifi router using cmd also known as command prompt.

Although Windows isn’t made for hacking, Linux is the best if you want to become an ethical hacker.

However, some simple things such as finding router passwords are possible by CMD.

Here are your steps.

  1. First open cmd, press windows key+ r then type cmd and press enter. It will launch cmd as you can see in the screenshot. Make sure to find the router password, you should be connected to the network by cable to the wireless network.
    hack router using cmd
  2. type IPconfig. It will show a lot of data. You don’t need to understand all of the data. Just see the value front of a Default gateway as shown in the screenshot. If your computer is connected to multiple networks by cable then make you are viewing under the wifi section.
    router IP cmd
  3. Now open the browser, type the default gateway IP address in the address bar and press enter.
  4. It will ask you for a username & password.
  5. Most of the time, people don’t change the default username password. Here is the list of usernames & passwords that you can try.
usernamepassword
adminadmin
adminpassword
admin
rootadmin
rootpassword
telcotelco

On successful login, it will look something like this one.

login successful

Things You Can Do After Hacking Router Password

Here are things that people love to do after getting a router password.

  • Discounting other devices for fast speed
  • Blocking specific devices of their friends for fun
  • Changing the Wifi Password and Router password for fun

In case the default login details didn’t work then you can apply the word list attack method to hack the router password.

To apply wordlist attack you need Kali Linux or any other Linux distribution. I think this is a topic for another article. If you want step by step tutorial on this, let me know in the comment section.

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