Either on the bottom or side of the router or in the instruction manual there should be an address that you can see to type into the browsers address bar. I think Netgear is the 192.168.0.1 and once you type in that address you will see the login box on your screen where you put the default user name and password. You then go to the security tab and create your password and you can encrypt it if you want then make sure you write it down for safe keeping and save and exit. Now you have your password setup.