Re: Question re broadband/router/wireless............

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:50:04 +0100, Johnny B Good
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On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:11:28 +0100, Johnny B Good
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Synapse Syndrome wrote:

I'd be surprised if it was /not/ possible on a Linksys, as it
seems to be
typical on all contemporary routers

Netgear and Linksys routers always used to default the wifi to enabled
and unsecured with an SSID of "NETGEAR" or "linksys" respectively. This
may have changed, but it probably saves a lot of RMAs.

I bet you couldn't access the admin login page via a wireless
connection in that case.

You'd lose that bet. I came across an unsecured NETGEAR wifi ssid at
home the other day, and could get into the config page using the
default password. No clues as to who's it was, and I knocked on
various doors nearby but no joy.

So I added a WPA2 password to it. On a Netgear, this shows up in
plaintext on the admin page.

It's still up and running, so I guess whoever owns it either doesn't
use the wifi or has spotted the password.

That just seems so surreal. None of the cheaper brands, such as Peak
(usually using Conexant chips) that I used to stock, exhibited such
crass stupidity over such a critical function as admin access.

If you hadn't told us about your experience, I wouldn't have believed a
company like Netgear could be so careless as to needlessly place their
customers in such jeopardy. Well, you live and learn!

What I can't recall (from my own Netgears) is whether the wifi is
enabled by default.

Cheers - Jaimie
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