Networking help

[Pastrey Crust]

So I have this piece of stuff router+modem in school which has a hard-as-forget password to get into the WiFi. I know the router's administrator credentials because the person in charge doesn't know stuff and probably didn't change it. I want to rip the password to connect to the network because I lost the paper slip which had it. Morons using WEP in 2016. -_-


Anyways, I got on the PC which is hard-wired to a switch, directly connected to said router+modem. I opened ipconfig and it says that the default gateway is 192.168.0.1 and Google chrome tells me that the address is invalid.

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[ZSNO]

You could go the slightly less illegal route and crack the WEP key in a couple seconds since WEP sucks.

[Pastrey Crust]

It's not illegal if I was authorized to access the network in the first place. Anyways, this issue is long gone. Firefox connected to the router. Chrome sucks.

[TheBlackParrot]

Firefox connected to the router. Chrome sucks.

browsers should have nothing to do with connecting to a router

[Pastrey Crust]

What do you want me to tell you? Firefox opened up the router's settings page while Chrome just displayed a "The request timed out" error.

[Foxscotch]

It's not illegal if I was authorized to access the network in the first place.

that's not how it works

[Pastrey Crust]

So brute-force is much more legal than guessing that the credentials are "admin" and "admin"?

[Foxscotch]

So brute-force is much more legal than guessing that the credentials are "admin" and "admin"?

they're both illegal, at least in first-world countries

[Tokerovin]

Any attempt to access computing resources that are owned by someone else is illegal without explicit permission.

That being said, what admin don't know wont hurt em'.

Chrome is not stuff, you forgeted something up.
Using Kali Linux to crack WEP and entry test is the way to go for most stuff, but if you know the credentials, do your own thing nignog.

[Pastrey Crust]

Yes and I bothered to write down the password on my phone this time.