[Nottingham] On Virgin Media?

[David Aldred]

On 12 Mar 2014 17:36, "Jason Irwin" <jasonirwin73 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/03/14 23:28, Going It Alone wrote:
> > "It's the first thing I do with any piece of electronics,
personally...."
> > +1 on that.  This is what the public need to be educated on.
> The problem is there is so *much* "the public" need to be educated on.
> How do you explain changing the router admin password to someone who
> doesn't know what a browser is and thinks Google is the Internet?
>

Go out in the street or the back garden and see how many wifi networks your
phone can see.   Here it's half a dozen.   Only one has a  default SSID.

So the majority have changed the SSID,  and to do so they had to log in
using the admin password - it's not that difficult for most people.

Why an admin password change isn't simply forced on first login I don't
know.  You can always get the default one back with a factory reset (the
instructions for which are physically attached to my superhub!).
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