Hi,

I recently had a Mac engineer help me with some problems I was having with my G4 Tower but wasn't exactly sure precisely what he was doing while he was here.

I couldn't ask too many questions but I did notice that when it came to typing in the password for my Speed Touch USB (which I was waiting for him to give me the keyboard to do myself) he said he'd already done it by simply 'guessing' it. After he keft I tried restarting my G4 and typed-in my usual password....which worked just fine.

Then, however, out of curiosity I deciided to try gioing online again to see if it would work with a different password - which it certainly did!! In fact it also worked perfectly well if I just typed in any old rubbish or just a jumble of random keys. This makes little sense to me since my connection is supposed to be password protected.

Does anyoine have any idea what this guy might have done to my computer and/or USB connection to allow this to happen and is there any way I can rectify it?

If my password can be any old rubbish I choose at any time, am I still protected?

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

How about if you don't enter a password? Can you try resetting the password in the modem and putting in a new one to see if that will override this password issue?

I have a SpeedTouch 530 and don't have these problems. When I enter the password (or username) incorrectly, it just pops back up the username/password box. As WeaponX said, try resetting the password! I'm not sure if there is a master password for the modem, but if there is - he may have used that!

Good Luck
-jimmy

Same here, I have the SpeedTouch 530 and Motorola 4400 or something like that, neither suffer from this problem.

You want to check if he has changed the base configuration file.

See if you can reset the modem (if you don't have to worry about any old settings), it should maybe re-instate the default configuration etc.

Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try.

Hi Jimmy,

Thanks for the info and ideas. I'll give it a try and let you know how it goes.

Hi Chesso,

Good idea. I'll give it a try now and let you know how it goes.