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Whittie
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13th Oct 10 at 09:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Going to an old womans house tomorrow, to install a wireless router.

She doesnt have a clue what her broadband username and password are...

She currently has a wired netgear router, is it possible to see the email address and password on their "192.168.0.1" or would the p/w be blanked out?

I just cba waiting on hold to her ISP for an hour, when it can be done in 5 minutes, passing her onto the phone for relavent info etc

Any other way of getting the BB username and pw without calling up her ISP?

Cheers for any replies
Nismo
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13th Oct 10 at 09:59   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Will be able to get the username from the current router, but wont be able to get the password.

Only way you could really get around it would be to backup the settings from the current router and install a wireless one thats the same model and load the backup settings on.
Whittie
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13th Oct 10 at 10:08   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Meh - I've got a stock of Linksys Cisco Wireless G routers, cheap and cheerful nowadays.

Nevermind, just wondered if you could find it.
pow
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13th Oct 10 at 10:09   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
You can pull username and password from netgear routers using telnet, I've done that before

I'll just dig out my instructions...

[Edited on 13-10-2010 by pow]
Whittie
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Awesome. Cheers Dave
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13th Oct 10 at 10:13   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Right, go to:

http://192.168.0.1/setup.cgi?todo=debug
while joined to her network

Open an elivated CMD prompt.

telnet 192.168.0.1

Log in if it asks (some do, some dont)

give command:

cat /tmp/nvram | grep pppoa_

(somtimes without the end "_")

Should be there in plain text.

Replace 192.168.0.1 with the IP of her router ofc

[Edited on 13-10-2010 by pow]
Whittie
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13th Oct 10 at 10:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Wicked, Cheers matey!

Edit: She's on a mac So will have to take my laptop to find out.

[Edited on 13-10-2010 by Whittie]
pow
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I'd test it first, no garentee it'll work
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What's the ISP? Some ISPs (like O2/Be) don't have a username/password.
Whittie
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13th Oct 10 at 10:48   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
She used to have Orange, but I think it's now with BT or AOL.
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Some info for you Whittie:

BT Broadband

AOL

Looks like they both need a username and password
Richie
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Some routers allow you to dump the config to a file which would have the password in an unencrypted format. Usually dumps as a text or xml file, both easily readable

 
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