Resetting a router, will it affect WEP password?

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Hey peeps once again.

I have a ZyXEL P-660HW-D1 router and I've forgotten my administrator password. Now, I've read in the user manual that you are able to reset the password to 1234 just by holding down the reset button on the router.

The main thoughts I've had with that is, I have a WEP based password to connect to the internet, but if I'd reset the router, would the password be reset to something else or completely disabled? If so, how could I set up the same password for the router again?
 
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So you're saying I reset the router, connect to it via cable and log in using the password then, 1234, go to internet password somewhere, put in the password and put it on WEP and I'm good to go? And enable AFAIK wifi?
 
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So you're saying I reset the router, connect to it via cable and log in using the password then, 1234, go to internet password somewhere, put in the password and put it on WEP and I'm good to go?
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Right. And enable the WiFi if necessary.
 
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If you use WEP, you may as well not use it. It takes less than a minute to break WEP encryption under good conditions.
 
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Are you saying I should rather use WPA? Or are you saying I should just have WEP encryption off? What are the prons and cons by doing so?
 
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It's not horrible broken as far as I know so yeah. My personal preference is still cables though.
 
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Just to make this clear, I reset the router, make it start again. Then, I connect to the web-based configurator via cable with the resetted password 1234, type in the old password for the internet, use WPA or just nothing as encryption, change the administrator password to something better and enable WiFi if necessary? Sounds easy enough.
 
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Of course it's easy :)
By the way WEP is better than nothing. It's possible to hack WEP, but it's simplier to not hack at all :). And WPA offers good enought protection. However, it can reduce speed a bit.

P.S. After you set up the internet access (connection type, login, pass), you can ask us via cable about WiFi, WEP and other things. ;)
 
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Ohh, I got one more question, do I also have to rename the network itself? It's name now is Vodafone_Xi3, would I need to rename it to something else or just that name when I reset the router or does it keep the network name?

EDIT

Ahh doesn't matter now XDXDXD I found that the password was just admin. Mwaha XDXDXD
 
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