In reply to a post by BatBoy:

You may find you need to set to to auto just once so you can connect to the router to reconfigure it's DHCP settings.

You can, and you can also disable DHCP on the Sky Netgear and Sagem routers that I've used.

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Yes, the router is configured the first time it connects to Sky. This realisation led to the password-hacking site.

Yes, the router is configured to the Sky BB login credentials the first time it connects to Sky. That is what the password-hacking sites are for obtaining. However, that has nothing to do with the router's own Web-interface login credentials, which any PC can address, as I did on my Orange connection.

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Yes, the router is configured the first time it connects to Sky. This realisation led to the password-hacking site.

Yes, the router is configured to the Sky BB login credentials the first time it connects to Sky. That is what the password-hacking sites are for obtaining.

As I said

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

As I said

But not the whole truth and not what the OP was asking, i.e. logging into router

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

As I said

But not the whole truth and not what the OP was asking, i.e. logging into router

Well, if you check back, you'll see it was the answer to a question asked. But anyway, the whole story has been brought out now, so everyone is happy