router hub interface says 'not secure' after logging in

[Anonymous User]

Setting up new nowtv Hub2 router, and when I go to 192.168.0.1  the website says not secure (there is no https).  AFTER I put my username and password in and I log in it STILL says 'not secure' even though all my router information is clearly visible (passwords etc).  Shouldn't it be secure after I have logged in? There is no little lock on the address bar,  and the information says that the website is not secure and that I shouldn't enter any sensitive information like passwords as hackers could steal it.   Shouldn't it be SECURE after I have logged in and am doing sensitive things like router password etc. ...???

[RoyB · Accepted solution]

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@Anonymous User wrote:

Setting up new nowtv Hub2 router, and when I go to 192.168.0.1  the website says not secure (there is no https).  AFTER I put my username and password in and I log in it STILL says 'not secure' even though all my router information is clearly visible (passwords etc).  Shouldn't it be secure after I have logged in? There is no little lock on the address bar,  and the information says that the website is not secure and that I shouldn't enter any sensitive information like passwords as hackers could steal it.   Shouldn't it be SECURE after I have logged in and am doing sensitive things like router password etc. ...???

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192.168.0.1 is your router’s local address, which only you, in your home, or somebody very very nearby in range of your WiFi*, can access, and none of the data ever goes out over the telephone line, let alone onto the internet.

Your router is letting you talk to it as if it was a website, which is very useful for setting it up, but you can arrange* that nobody can spy on you doing it.

The most important thing to do, though, is to set new passwords that only you know, for your WiFi, and your router admin and so on; otherwise some black hat might come by, and try to get on your WiFi from outside, and if he succeeds, to get into your router with 192.168.0.1, which is pretty standard.

So you want to

(a) make sure he can’t get onto your WiFi with no password, a default password or an easy-to-guess password

and

(b) even if he does, because he has learned your password through social engineering, going through your trash, or somebody’s carelessness, or because you gave it to him because you though he was a friend, or he is the bloke who stole your phone, etc., etc...

that he still can’t get into your router, because that is passworded too, and that password is different and a more closely guarded secret.

*If you are worried by this, then until you have it all secure, turn its WiFi off and connect to it by an Ethernet cable.

[Anonymous User]

Thank you Roy. That is a very well explained answer and it puts my mind at rest.  I have changed the router login password and the wifi network password and they are different from each other.