Wednesday, October 29, 2014

How to change the wifi name and password of the PLDT Home Fibr Modem

As I've said on my previous blog, I recently had PLDT Home Fibr installed in our provincial home in Batangas. I wasn't home when the field tech installed the service so when I came home, the wifi name and password was already configured. I didn't like it because the wifi password is something that I think could easily be guessed so I decided to customize it. So today, I'm going to share with you how I did it. BTW, this will work for PLDT Home Fibr Huawei HG8245 modem. It's gonna be easy. You don't have to be very technical to do it. 

First thing you gotta do is to make sure that your computer/laptop is connected directly to the modem via ethernet/RJ-45 cable aka yellow/blue cable. You can also use a tablet or smartphone provided that it's conmected wirelessly to your modem. Open up an internet browser. Any browser such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari, Mozilla Firefox will do. In my case, I used my iPad so I used safari.


On the address bar or URL bar (on this browser, it's the search bar at the very top) type in 192.168.100.1 (the default IP address of this modem) then press enter/return. It will go to a page that looks like this.


By default, the account is "root" and the password is "admin". After you type the info, click on login and it will go to a page that looks like this.



Just click/tap the WLAN tab and it will go to the WLAN Configuration page.



By default, the SSID aka wifi name is set to WirelessNet and it doesn't have a password. So just clear out the SSID name box and type in the name of wifi that you wanna use. Remember, wifi name should not have any space. To customize your wifi password, first, you have to select an Authentication mode. I recommend using WPA/WPA2 coz it's more secure than WEP plus you can use both letters and numbers for the password unlike in WEP, wherein you can only use numbers. Once you have selected WPA/WPA2, another box below Authentication Mode that says Encryption mode will pop up. Just select TKIP&AES then type your preferred password on the password box which should have at least a minimum of 8 characters (includes letters and numbers). Just click on apply and you're all set!


Depending on how your device is connected, it may or may not get disconnected after you click on the apply button. If your pc/laptop is hardwired (connected via ethernet cable) to the modem, it will not get disconnected but if you're gonna use a pc/laptop/tablet/smartphone that is connected wirelessly, your device will definitely get disconnected from wifi since you changed the wifi name and password. All you have to do is to reconnect wirelessly. Just search for your wifi name, click connect and you'll be prompted to enter the wifi password. Just enter the new wifi password and you'll be good to go! 

Hope this helps! If you have other questions, feel free to comment and I'll try my best to answer it. 

God Bless and Have a good day! 







15 comments:

  1. ben fatto. sono riuscito a cambiare la password al model huawey hg8245

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    1. hi felix. sorry i do not understand what you said. english please. :)

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  2. hi! how to change the admin username and password in pldtfibr? my problem is even if how many times i changed the password? but anyone can still see it if they put adminpldt and the default password ?!

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    1. hi joyce ann. sorry for the very late reply. i haven't checked my blog for a long time. i just logged in again today. anyway, to answer your question, the first step is to open a browser, type 192.168.100.1 on the address bar then enter root and admin as the username and password, respectively. once you are in the modem settings page, click system tools on the upper right hand side of the page then click modify login password on the left hand side then you'll be prompted to enter the default password and your preferred password. it must have 9 to 30 alphanumeric characters and should have 1 special character. just a reminder, it is case sensitive. after you enter your preferred password, click on apply and your modem will now have a new login password. we can't change the default username though. hope this helps! :)

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  3. Pareho po ba lahat ng modem sa pldt home fibr

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  4. hi shawn. sorry but i'm not sure if pldt provides the same model number of the modem for all their fibr customers.

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  5. bakit po walang nalabas pag sa computer ko po isinearch yung 192.168.100.1

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  6. Hi! "adminpldt" and "123467890" don't work

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    1. where did you get that? anyway, if your modem's settings was customized and you want to change it then you can do a hard reset on the modem. there's a hard reset button on the left side of the modem. press and hold it for 30 seconds. your modem will restart and it will go back to default settings. from there, you can follow the steps on this blog to customize your wifi name and password. hope this helps. thanks!

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  7. incorrect account/password combination

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    1. either you have a different modem or your modem's login password was customized. if you wanna change it and does not know the login username and password, then you can do a hard reset. just press and hold the reset button of the modem on the left hand side for 30 seconds, wait for the lights to turn green then follow the steps in this blog to customize your wifi name and password and even the login password of the modem. hope this helps. thanks!

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  8. How to change the default admin username and password which is telecomadmin and admintelecom pldthomefibr.? thank you for the answer..

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  9. Hello! This one's a great help. Thank you very much!

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  10. May default password ba yan paps? Thanks

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