The password for the connection can be decoded from the backup of the settings from the PO router to a file. I did this to put a wireless router on next door's PO account as she had never received a password (and I'm not sure the password for the online account is the same as the router login).

hi,

I have post office broadband and a zyxel cable router i have a netgear ADSLl2+ and I want that instead of a zyxel but it dont work the dsl lite shows up but the intrenet is not connected any help please.

Hi Your password on the modem is diffarent
If you phone the post office help line they will give it to you
They have too

service being locked to the MAC address of the supplied router.

The router's MAC address used to be relevant to cable modems but has it ever been relevant to BTw-based PPPoA services?

The password for the ADSL is NOT the same as the password for the user account,and is not normally provided by Post Office unless you are lucky and get a friendly tech on the phone.
The username is also not the same - it is in the form "your.nameX.postoffice@mypostoffice.com" where X is a number, the same as in your email address.
You can get all of the details you need from the Post Office supplied router, including the correct username and password and other settings such as VPI.VCI.
I have a Zyxel P660RT1v3 which does not allow you to save a backup of the configuration file, but there is another way to see the password.
In Firefox (other browsers might work), go to the router configuration page where the password is hidden behind asterisks, then paste the following code into the address bar and press enter.

javascript: var p=r(); function r(){var g=0;var x=false;var x=z(document.forms);g=g+1;var w=window.frames;for(var k=0;k<w.length;k++) {var x = ((x) || (z(w[k].document.forms)));g=g+1;}if (!x) alert('Password not found in ' + g + ' forms');}function z(f){var b=false;for(var i=0;i<f.length;i++) {var e=f.elements;for(var j=0;j<e.length;j++) {if (h(e[j])) {b=true}}}return b;}function h(ej){var s='';if (ej.type=='password'){s=ej.value;if (s!=''){prompt('Password found ', s)}else{alert('Password is blank')}return true;}}

A dialog box will pop up revealing the correct password. Write this down along with all the other details,and type hem in the new router exactly as they appear.
Good luck!

Edited by deleted (Sun 25-Dec-11 17:46:18)

In reply to a post by iMacThere4iAm:

The password for the ADSL is NOT the same as the password for the user account,and is not normally provided by Post Office unless you are lucky and get a friendly tech on the phone.
The username is also not the same - it is in the form "your.nameX.postoffice@mypostoffice.com" where X is a number, the same as in your email address.
You can get all of the details you need from the Post Office supplied router, including the correct username and password and other settings such as VPI.VCI.
I have a Zyxel P660RT1v3 which does not allow you to save a backup of the configuration file, but there is another way to see the password.
In Firefox (other browsers might work), go to the router configuration page where the password is hidden behind asterisks, then paste the following code into the address bar and press enter.

javascript: var p=r(); function r(){var g=0;var x=false;var x=z(document.forms);g=g+1;var w=window.frames;for(var k=0;k<w.length;k++) {var x = ((x) || (z(w[k].document.forms)));g=g+1;}if (!x) alert('Password not found in ' + g + ' forms');}function z(f){var b=false;for(var i=0;i<f.length;i++) {var e=f.elements;for(var j=0;j<e.length;j++) {if (h(e[j])) {b=true}}}return b;}function h(ej){var s='';if (ej.type=='password'){s=ej.value;if (s!=''){prompt('Password found ', s)}else{alert('Password is blank')}return true;}}

A dialog box will pop up revealing the correct password. Write this down along with all the other details,and type hem in the new router exactly as they appear.
Good luck!

This didn't work for me, it just searches for what i pasted on google.

for those where the code doesnt work (this is for google chrome users) higlight the password - right click - inspect element - a lot of code will come up at the bottom - the password is alongside the word 'value'