Can the broadband account password be used as the router login password? I got locked three times by mistake, only then did I understand the difference between the two sets of accounts.

Last year, I helped my brother-in-law repair the Internet. His Mercury router had been reset a few days ago and needed to be reset. I logged in using his computer at his home 192.168.1.1 , the login box popped up, and he naturally gave me a series of mobile phone numbers and passwords.: The broadband account was given to him by the business office on the day of installation. I typed it in, wrong. Change the case and try again, error again. After typing for the third time, a line of text "Too many failed login attempts, please try again later" popped up on the page, and the background was locked for ten minutes.

It was only later that I looked through the stickers and instructions that I figured it out.: The string he mentioned is the PPPoE dial-up account number, which is the identity that the router uses for you "for the operator" ； The login box requires a management password, which is the key for "you" to enter the backend. Both things look like account passwords, and the directions are completely opposite. I'm here for this How to change the three passwords of the router I roughly divided them into categories in that article, so I will talk about them separately this time, because there are so many people who got the wrong ones - I can see one every once in a while in the background messages.

Which door does each of the two sets of accounts manage? You can tell it in one minute.

Think of your home broadband as a two-layer door. The outer door is for the operator: This China Telecom or China Unicom line in your home must first "report your identity" before allowing you to access the Internet. This identity is a broadband account (mostly a string of numbers starting with a mobile phone number or area code, with an independent password). It is filled in in the Internet settings in the background of the router. Once completed, the router will dial the number for you every time it is turned on. The inner door is the router’s own: 192.168.1.1 That login box is designed to prevent people on your home WiFi from trying to tamper with the settings. One facing outward and one facing inward.

So there will be a particularly awkward situation.: The broadband account password is completely correct, and you can always access the Internet at home, but you type it in the login box and are still rejected. Because it is not verified by the same system at all - the dial-up account is recognized by the operator's authentication server, and the management password is stored by the router itself. The router does not know your broadband password, and the operator does not care about your backend key. Each side keeps its own account.

By the way, I mentioned the third one who is easy to confuse.: Neither is the WiFi password. The WiFi password controls the connection of the device to your home wireless network, and has nothing to do with the background key. A set of at least three passwords for a home, each responsible for one, and no one can replace the other.

What will happen when you tap the login box with your broadband account?

The best case scenario is that it doesn't match up once, you react and change the correct password, and you're fine. The worse situation is like that at my brother-in-law's house: After three consecutive errors, the background is temporarily locked, prompting you to wait a few to ten minutes before trying again. Different brands of locks have different rules. Some locks for five minutes, some for ten minutes, and some in increments. I'm here for this Locked if you enter the wrong password In that article, I wrote about the temperaments of several mainstream machines. The core is just one sentence.: Don't try hard to lock it. The more you try, the longer it will take. Just wait.

There is a more hidden pit: Some optical modem administrator accounts are also a series of things that look very similar to business accounts, such as the telecomadmin of China Telecom Optical Mode. Many people mix it with the broadband account. Optical modem's super password is a system installed by the operator, and it is the same code as your broadband dial-up account. The three sets of identities of the three-layer equipment at home (optical modem, router, and WiFi) were all mixed up in a memo called "broadband password." When an accident occurred, no one could remember which string was correct for which door.

My native method is to divide the memo into three notes.: Broadband account, router backend, optical modem backend, mark "What does it matter" after each entry. The words marked are worth more than the password itself.

After reset, which string does the login box recognize?

This is a common scenario where you get the wrong password. After the router is restored to the factory, the management password will be returned to the factory value, and any changes you made before will be invalidated. ； The broadband account password remains unchanged and remains the same as the operator's. So many people log in after reset and habitually enter the old management password that they have changed, only to be rejected. ； I tried to enter my broadband account again but was still rejected. ； Finally, I stared at the router in a daze.

What will be recognized in the login box after reset depends on the brand rules. Most new models of Mercury and Tenda allow you to create a management password on the spot when entering the backend for the first time, or the initial password is printed on a sticker. ； The old version of TP-Link is admin ； Xiaomi doesn't have a factory password at all. Whoever's phone connects first uses the app to bind it. The specific differences between the several companies are as follows: 192.168.1.1 default password I checked them one by one in that article. Look for one: Reset only resets the router's own account, leaving the operator's account unchanged.

So the correct order after reset is: First enter the background using the factory settings, then fill in the broadband account password in the Internet settings, and then your home network will be back. The whole process and the pitfalls in the middle (I forgot where to find the broadband account) I am here Redial after reset I have already written it all in that article, so I won’t repeat it here.

I really lost my management password. I can retrieve it in ascending order of cost.

If you have confirmed that you are not typing the broadband account number or the management password itself cannot be remembered, don’t rush to take out the paperclip. I arranged the four paths in order of cost from small to large.:

• Check the password saved by the browser: Have logged into the computer before 192.168.1.1 And click Remember, go to the password management in the browser settings and search 192.168.1.1 , you can directly see the plain text at zero cost.
• Ask my family and the installer: The machine installed by the master often leaves a default password. Anyone in the family who has saved a series of memos on their mobile phone is worth asking.
• Turn over the router bottom case sticker: It is only valid for machines that have "never changed their password". Those who have changed their password will jump directly to the next step.
• reset: The cost is the highest. Broadband accounts, WiFi, and bindings are all cleared and put last. Copy what needs to be copied before taking action.

I wrote the expanded version of these four items in Can't find password for new mobile phone In that article, the idea is the same: Don't reset if you can use the zero-cost method.

Sort out three sets of passwords at once so you won’t get them wrong again in the future.

What I did the night after I finished repairing my brother-in-law's house: He changed the background password to another string that had nothing to do with the broadband password, and wrote down his three sets of account numbers on a piece of paper and stuck it in the weak current box. It's not that the note is high-end, but that the cost of taking it wrong is too high - locking it for ten minutes is light, but if someone randomly tries the super password in the backend of optical modem, locking it will be more troublesome.

Give you a five-minute closing checklist. First, confirm that the management password and broadband password are two different strings of values. If you write the same string in both strings, change one of them while you remember it. Second, the memo is divided into three sections, and each section is marked with what it controls. Third, the week after changing the password, use your mobile phone to enter the background once and confirm that the new password can pass the login box. After completing these three steps, the next time the login box pops up, you will reach out and find the right key.

A final word of relief: If the login box rejects you, it has nothing to do with whether the router is broken or the network connection is blocked. The network is fine, but I can't access the backend. It's a matter of password. ； Even the internet was down, so it was time to check the line. Distinguishing these two kinds of "bad" can save you a lot of messy nights.