How to change the router's local Web administration interface language.
If the local Web interface in your Sputnik device comes up in Chinese, and it's a language you don't understand, here's how to get it back to English.
How the language got set to Chinese in the first place.
WIth Sputnik-default firmware (downloaded from http://www.sputnik.com/support/download/) the language is factory set to English. When you first log into the router's local web interface at 192.168.180.1, you are required to change the password as a security precaution. The language selection menu is on the same page though usually scrolled off the page - it is displayed, expanded, below.
Language selection.
If your web browser's default language is set to Chinese (which can happen with compromised browsers), DD-WRT detects this and will switch the language to Chinese. In other cases misconfigured browsers will auto-select the first menu option (Chinese - simplified). Since this option is not visible to the user the language selection may be changed without notice.
First, perform a 30-30-30 reset.
If you are using Sputnik-default firmware from http://www.sputnik.com/support/download, a 30-30-30 reset will clear all nvram values (the router's configuration file) and set the default language to English.
Please see: How to hard reset a router (30/30/30 reset)
Issue the following commands via SputnikNet (if router is online).
Select the router in SputnikNet and choose "Execute Command". From the command line option, send the following commands.
nvram set language=english
nvram commit
reboot
Issue the following commands via telnet (if router is not online).
Telnet into the router and issue the same commands as above:
nvram set language=english
nvram commit
reboot