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Old 21st Nov 2014, 13:22
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jimjim1
 
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Default password

As mentioned already, yes change the password. Make it pretty long say 30 chars. If it is long I see no problem with using mostly ordinary words but not a well known phrase, with some twiddly bits. Unless of course you are expecting GCHQ in which case you should us a random password generator - or turn off the radio entirely.

The problem with the default password is that I understand that some ISPs have in the past used a complicated looking string derived from the default SSID or MAC address, both of which are accessible externally. The algorithm has subsequently become public.

I used something like this for a while years ago.

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