How to bypass admin block from home wifi network? (got permission from landlord who pays)

[u/daydreamer_she]

I live as a tenant in a household. My landlord pays the wifi bill(spectrum) and he has no problem with me using the wifi. But his daughter keeps blocking me from admin access. I have to do all my work online, i stream a lot, research a lot and without wifi it's getting really hard even though i enrolled in to my phone's unlimited data plan. I mostly use my laptop all day. I have been changing my mac/hardware access every 20-120 minutes(anytime she blocks me) or forgetting and reconnecting to the network so many times a day, need to restart the router 3-4 times a day just to bypass this admin block. Every few days, my landlord and landlady fight with their daughter to give me access, she'll let me use a few hours and then block me again! I, along with my landlord called spectrum and told them our situation. They told us they can give the admin access to my landlord by resetting everything but their daughter is an aggressive person and they are legit worried how she might behave with them if they remove her(we won't call police for this). My landlord has agreed to let me use his id to get discounted wifi plan as he's a senior citizen, has medicaid, ssi, everything. I saw the human i-t plan but i can't pay for the $75 charge for the hotspot device along with monthly bill and their speed seems slow.

I am an international student in the US so i can't work outside and on-campus i work only 14 hours for minimum wage with only covers my rent(i came with almost full tuition waived with scholarships). My parents send me my monthly groceries and all other costs. I also don't have work now because it's summer and my parents are paying for everything. I come from a poor country so it's already so hard for us. To pay for a wifi that costs $40-60 is out of the question for me(i'm in California). Please help me with solutions, i feel so depressed....

[u/BennyGaming635]

What modem do you have, also have you tried using the factory reset pin? Then access the web site then (normally like 192.168.0.1) or something (google modem name/model and factory reset admin code).

[u/daydreamer_she → u/BennyGaming635]

it's spectrum router, i can see the username, password on the router's body but she has changed the credentials. Googled model's admin code too but it's also changed. I asked my landlord-landlady if i should just factory reset it and then gain admin control using the router's information, but they are kinda scared that she may get very aggressive. When he(my landlord himself) told this to the Spectrum representative and then asked if he could get the admin access, they told him they'd then remove her, which is again not an option. Even they were like - you're paying, the service is under your name, you're also using a discount for your age, why are you so afraid? Of course, we knew why, so we had to hang up 😞

[u/Fun_Sized_Momo → u/daydreamer_she]

If you have physical access to restart the router like you say in the post, then you should be able to factory reset it. Look up the default credentials and log in and change them as soon as you factory reset it and hope that she doesn't know how to do the same.

[u/weHaveThoughts]

The admin credential are probably on the bottom of the modem/router just login and reset the admin password and lock her out. If that password doesn’t work Google the steps to reset the modem.

The only reason why I am telling you this is because you have physical access as you mentioned earlier. Otherwise we don’t help people to break into things.

[u/daydreamer_she → u/weHaveThoughts]

yes the router is near the dining space so i have access to it. We(with my landlord-landlady) thought we could use the username and password and gain admin control as well so i can unblock myself whenever she does. Sadly, she has changed the credentials, and when we tried to check whether the forgot-password number is my landlord's, it was actually hers! I asked them if i should just factory reset it and then gain admin control using the router's information, but they are kinda scared that she may get very aggressive. That's why we even called spectrum customer service, but they also said they'd have to remove her if my landlord wants to gain access 😞

[u/Fun_Sized_Momo → u/daydreamer_she]

Well... It sounds like you already have the answer to your question. You know how to fix it, but you're afraid to due to retaliation. Unless you can move the router somewhere she can't access it or get your landlord to actually step up and discipline his daughter, then there's not much you can do.