How to back up your router settings

Pt. 6 of 10 | 3:06 |

Routers 201: Intermediate Studies

Monday June 28, 2010

By this point in our tutorial series you may have followed our steps to

create blocks for websites

set up a schedule

or change other settings to

configure your router

properly. Of course these things take time, so to be on the safe side we'll show you how to

back up your router settings

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Show Notes

- In your router software look for Backup Settings.

- You'll have a button to click to backup all your settings.

- Generally, by default, this has a name like NETGEAR-WNR1000V2.CFG.

- My recommendation is to rename this file to something that is more meaningful to you.

- For example, the date of the backup like NETGEAR-28-06-2010.CFG.

- Or perhaps you have one configuration that has blocking and another that doesn't.

- You could name them NETGEAR-BLOCKING-ON.CFG and NETGEAR-NOBLOCK.CFG.

- If you need to restore just click the Restore button and select the file you want.

- This is also where renaming the backups will come in handy.

- If you want you can restore your router to default settings by clicking Erase.

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