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user name / password wireless router Chorus/NTL

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  • 25-07-2009 12:33pm
    #1
    cmNrthDub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭


    Just got broadband and phone with Chorus/NTL. Neither the guys who installed the hardware nor the technical support knows the user name and password of the wireless router (it's a Cisco one). Does anyone know where to get these data from?


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    #2
    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Is it a router (more than one ethernet port and WiFi) or just a Modem (coax, socket for phone and one ethernet socket)?

    If it's the Cable Modem/ATA with integrated router, then this thread has the answer
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055588792
    Possibly
    Leave both blank to access it.

    Write down a new random 8 letter & number upper & lower case password. Change the password.
    Make the user be admin or something obvious.

    Do not loose the written down password. Get a small notebook and keep in a safe place for ALL email address/websites/user names and passwords. Use really good passwords as above and different name/pass for every website. Don't keep it in the laptop bag :(

    Also http://www.cisco.com/web/consumer/support/prod_modems.html


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    #3
    cmNrthDub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭cmNrthDub


    It's this one: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/video/ps8611/ps8675/ps8686/7016662.pdf


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Nice Modem AND Router

    It does appear that originally the default was blank and that some browsers (esp Chrome) don't work.


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    vibe666
    Registered Users Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    any time i've set stuff up for people, i always found a good place to put the modem/router password is on a sticky avery label on the bottom of it. that way, the only way to lose the password is to lose the modem. :)


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    #6
    cmNrthDub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭cmNrthDub


    watty wrote: »
    It does appear that originally the default was blank and that some browsers (esp Chrome) don't work.

    Thanks, that worked!


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Great.

    Now I hope you use a good password and setup any WiFi with WPA.

    Without a good password, a rogue website can reprogram the DNS to do "man in the middle attacks"

    With WEP WIFI some one can be leeching on you. WPA with a weak pass (needs about 24+ random letters/numbers) can be broken to.


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