XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11
From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com
In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on 28 Nov 2025 15:12:22 GMT, Frank Slootweg
wrote:
>micky wrote:
>[...]
>> I made a mistake not changing the password to something I could
>> remember. they have to use one that no other subscriber to Verizon has.
>> I'd only have to use one that no other neighbor had and no one around
>> could guess, or use software to find. Didn't know how many times I'd
>> have to enter it, the printer, the cell phone, the next cell phone, a
>> TV, Alexa maybe, and a couple other things I didn't forexee and don't
>> rmeember. I should have made it shorter and easier.
>
> You're mixing up passwords.
Darn. I'm n ot too surprised.
>
> There are two passwords: 1) The one to access the web UI of the
>modem/router and 2) the password for your WiFi network.
WRT 1, when I first got a router, I spent time looking at the settings,
and even had a bookmark to get into them. I tried to copy everything
over to the new computer, but I think that was in the browser. I'm
useing the old computer now. I should look for that stuff.
> 1) probably should be unique, but must not be unique, because it's
>only accessed from your (hardwired or/and wireless) network.
>
> 2) is unique as shipped from / installed by the ISP, but as soon as
>you change the SSID (your WiFi network name) it can be anything you
>like, provided it matches the rules defined by the router and is
>sufficiently secure.
It's this one I should have made shorter, but it's too late now because
I'd have to change it in several devices. And even though it's 16 or so
characters long, I've almost memorized it.
Thanks, and if I don't have time to anwer the others, thanks to you guys
too.
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