ADSL router settings
R D S
just occurred to me that I hadn't changed the username/password.
It shouldn't have worked, should it?
Nick Le Lievre
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>I have been using my modem/router at work for the last few days and it has
>just occurred to me that I hadn't changed the username/password.
>
> It shouldn't have worked, should it?
If you didn't change the username/password to log into the router it would
still work... its the username/password to log into your ISP that you need
to setup which you must of done correctly. I`d change that routers
username/password asap esp its a wireless router and your running an
unsecured network.
Graham
"Nick Le Lievre" <nickle...@jerseymail.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
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That's his point, he's talking about the ISP login.
Usually this is tied to a particular ADSL connection but IIRC
there are some exceptions.
Who is the ISP?
I take it it's the same one at both locations?
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R D S
"Graham" <m...@privacy.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Nick Le Lievre" <nickle...@jerseymail.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
> news:46783dbb$0$1343$834e...@reader.greatnowhere.com...
>> "R D S" <rsa...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:5dqrdiF...@mid.individual.net...
>>>I have been using my modem/router at work for the last few days and it
>>>has just occurred to me that I hadn't changed the username/password.
>>>
>>> It shouldn't have worked, should it?
>>
>> If you didn't change the username/password to log into the router it
>> would still work... its the username/password to log into your ISP that
>> you need to setup which you must of done correctly. I`d change that
>> routers username/password asap esp its a wireless router and your running
>> an unsecured network.
>
> That's his point, he's talking about the ISP login.
Precisely
> Usually this is tied to a particular ADSL connection but IIRC
> there are some exceptions.
> Who is the ISP?
> I take it it's the same one at both locations?
One is EzeeDSL which is 186k or something and the other is Cobweb who I
think resell Tiscali.
John Jordan
I think some of them will let absolutely any user/pass through because
it saves on tech support. Logically, if you're wired at the exchange,
you're a valid user.
BT home ADSL connections accept a wide range of generic user/pass
combinations, IIRC.
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John Jordan
Graham
I think you can be confident that its not logging in to your home account
when you are at work, it is just ignoring the credentials. Not a problem
really, because you need physical access to the wires.
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Graham.
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Graham
"John Jordan" <ju...@jaj22.org.uk> wrote in message
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>R D S wrote:
>> I have been using my modem/router at work for the last few days and it
>> has just occurred to me that I hadn't changed the username/password.
>>
>> It shouldn't have worked, should it?
>
> I think some of them will let absolutely any user/pass through because it
> saves on tech support.
If I were a cynical person (heaven forefend),
I might be of the opinion that the only reason that some
ISP's require a username and password is so that users
*do* call for support....
...at premium rates.
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Graham.
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Mike Barnard
Andrews and Arnold ISP. Tech support on a normal number and you talk
to a technician, not a screen reading drone.
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Mike Barnard, Worthing, UK.
Amateur PC enthuisast, trying to learn more.
And I play a lot of games! :)