How To Set Up Password For Westell Router

Westell 6100

Tihs page will evidence you lot how to configure the Westell 6100 modem/road.

This fantabulous modem used to be mutual in Verizon/Borderland and Bell South areas. They are still a practiced choice if you want a modem-only, which the telephone visitor people call "bridge mode". This allows yous to user your ain router, from companies like Apple or Netgear, There is another page that volition show you lot how to fix span mode.

This page volition prove you how to set up PPPOE or DHCP on this modem and use information technology every bit a router.

What you demand

In order to set up PPPOE you will need a PPPOE username and password. You cannot guess them. Please call us and go them. They are different for each user.

Cables

The dorsum of the 6100 has four plugs: one for telephone, usb, ethernet and power. Plug the telephone string to the wall jack. Plug in the ability and brand certain the lights come up on. Connect an ethernet cable from the 6100 to your computer. OK, we are set to start.

6100 back

Lights

We can tell the condition of the DSL line past looking at the lights on the front of the modem.

power = If the light is dark-green, the modem has power
link = If the light is green, there is something plugged into the ethernet port
ready = Solid green means there is a good DSL indicate observed. Blinking means no DSL indicate. Black too means no point.

If y'all accept three solid green lights, all is proficient and you can motility on to the next pace.

We need to come across a solid green dsl lite. If this low-cal is blinking, and so there's no indicate. This needs to exist fixed before you go to the adjacent pace.

Note that the "Internet" lite won't low-cal up until you accept things configured.

Reset the 6100

We don't know how this device is set up so we are going to reset information technology to factory defaults and go from there. If you lot have configured this device earlier and know how to log in yous can skip this step. Nevertheless, if it's been in bridge mode you would need to reset information technology for certain. Become a paperclip or a pen and employ it to push the hidden push right next to the power plug in the back of the modem. Hold the button for twenty seconds. The lights should flash and the router will restart. When information technology comes back, the configuration is wiped and everything is back to factory defaults. We are set to movement frontwards.

Connect to the 6100 with a Reckoner

We want to access the little web folio in the device that will allow u.s.a. to configure it.

Connect your computer to the device with an ethernet cable. There is no substitute. This device does non use Wifi. If your computer has no ethernet, borrow one that does. You admittedly need a reckoner with an ethernet port.

Now open a spider web browser such every bit Safari or Explorer or Chrome, and enter the numerical address 192.168.ane.1.

(If this doesn't work try 192.168.0.one or 192.168.254.254)

The router configuration screen should come up.

If it asks for a username/password endeavour admin/admin or admin/password. These are pretty lame but they are the defaults.

Run Configuration

This device volition commonly bring up a sorcerer:

Click next.

This takes you to the PPPOE configuration screen.

Y'all tin ignore the connection proper name.

Enter the pppose username and password you lot were given.

You cannot guess them and the ones in the moving-picture show won't work. If you don't have these, call us and ask for them.

The next screen asks y'all virtually "VPI/VCI". These should probably already be gear up to 0 and 35, which is right.

Click next.

This takes you to the protocol screen. That is the line type. I would have put this kickoff, but I didn't write this software.

Here is where we cull the connection type. There is a dropdown for "Protocol".

If your line is DHCP, set that in that location.

If your line is PPPOE, that'due south a choice here besides.

If you want to reset the device to bridge mode, that is already an pick.

Note: PPPOE requires a username and password, which were set up earlier. DHCP ignores them.

That's it, nosotros are done.

Click "done" so see if the device can connect.

The internet low-cal should go dark-green. Blinking is ok.

You should be online at present. You can test past using your calculator to surf the spider web.