Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there
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Finally decided to leave the world of Milwaukee-PC-quality internet speed and switched to Spectrum (formerly Time Warner). The default password on my modem is T!m3W4rn3rC4bl3
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@El_Heffe said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
The default password on my
modemsporadically-network-enabled space heater is T!m3W4rn3rC4bl3FTFY
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@El_Heffe Why would you let them give you a modem?
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@Magus said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
@El_Heffe Why would you let them give you a modem?
QFT. I have my own router. It comes with none of the horror stories you commonly hear about with ISP-provided equipment. (Not to mention the absurd rental fees!)
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MilwaukeePC gave me a router with a password along the lines of Avj4h62jFIk3oM, printed on the side of the router.
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@ben_lubar I think you might be talking about the WiFi password while @El_Heffe talked about the web administration portal password.
By the way, my ISP's router's WiFi password is no less than 20 random alphanumeric characters. Do the math, there's absolutely zero reason to make it this long.
Cargo cultism everywhere.
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@anonymous234 said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
@ben_lubar I think you might be talking about the WiFi password while @El_Heffe talked about the web administration portal password.
By the way, my ISP's router's WiFi password is no less than 20 random alphanumeric characters. Do the math, there's absolutely zero reason to make it this long.
Cargo cultism everywhere.
The passwords for those two things are different randomly generated strings. Also, the router's SSID is a randomly generated string.
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At least TIme Warner lets you use your own compatible modem, which we're doing.
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@anonymous234 Is this better or worse than Charter, which IIRC sends out routers with a randomized password in the form
AdjectiveNoun##
? (Such asSolidBanana37
orBeautifulChicken58
...)
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@ben_lubar said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
@anonymous234 said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
@ben_lubar I think you might be talking about the WiFi password while @El_Heffe talked about the web administration portal password.
By the way, my ISP's router's WiFi password is no less than 20 random alphanumeric characters. Do the math, there's absolutely zero reason to make it this long.
Cargo cultism everywhere.
The passwords for those two things are different randomly generated strings. Also, the router's SSID is a randomly generated string.
Is also a randomly generated string a randomly generated string?
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@Magus said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
@El_Heffe Why would you let them give you a modem?
It was free. They apparently stopped charging a monthly fee for the modem. So far, it works fine. I have my own wireless router which is quite a bit better quality than anything I'm likely to get from them.
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@masonwheeler said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
@anonymous234 Is this better or worse than Charter, which IIRC sends out routers with a randomized password in the form
AdjectiveNoun##
? (Such asSolidBanana37
orBeautifulChicken58
...)Rather low entropy. Even lower if the dictionary is small.
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@masonwheeler said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
SolidBanana37 or BeautifulChicken58
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@El_Heffe said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
@Magus said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
@El_Heffe Why would you let them give you a modem?
It was free. They apparently stopped charging a monthly fee for the modem. So far, it works fine. I have my own wireless router which is quite a bit better quality than anything I'm likely to get from them.
Oh yea, cable routers are always terrible
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@El_Heffe How much would it cost you to buy the modem they gave you online, new?
It's unlikely you even can. Most places don't give you good hardware.
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@Magus said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
@El_Heffe How much would it cost you to buy the modem they gave you online, new?
It's unlikely you even can. Most places don't give you good hardware.
AT&T Uverse gateways were $100 IIRC, but only very specific orders allowed you to buy them...
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Time Wizard Cable
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@Lathun said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
Time Wizard Cable
Time Warner Cable:
"At least we're not Comcast™"
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@masonwheeler said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
@anonymous234 Is this better or worse than Charter, which IIRC sends out routers with a randomized password in the form
AdjectiveNoun##
? (Such asSolidBanana37
orBeautifulChicken58
...)BalefulHunter2
?
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@coderpatsy said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
BalefulHunter2
Canonically, it would be
AzureDiamondHunter2
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My ISP is phenomenal in every way and I have a 400
kM connection (plus 120kM upload should I ever need that, not that I would ever know what to use it for) for the price I would have gotten 16k for at my old home. They only operate in this city, but in this city they are unbeatable. I went to one of their physical stores around the corner, signed the contract, got handed a modem, walked home 10 minutes, plugged it in and immediately had internet. Most other providers can take more than two weeks to set up internet for you.Also, they don't throttle you and don't subtly throttle netflix or twitch or youtube, like some others do (or at least used to). When I had a problem with twitch being slow and some others random site not loading at all, I went to the store again, and was assured a technician would call me "soon". He called me 30 minutes later and sorted out some kind of routing error with the node I was connected to. This is just absolutely uncomparable to the horredous service other ISPs give you here.
BUT, I have to use one of their routers because are mainly a cable tv company and everyone, even those that don't get internet over their tv cable, are routed through this atypical infrastructure of theirs and for that you need a very specific setup. They just give you a router with all of this complicated mess preprogrammed, but you have to use that one. It's not a bad or cheap one. BUT, while they are not on the stock settings of that router in terms of passwords (which would be username:admin, password:(serial number of router)), the admin account is username:"" password:"admin"
The first thing I did when I got it was try out all the usual suspects when it comes to default admin accounts. None of them worked, but I accidentially did not enter a username and admin as password and it worked. I didn't even know an empty username was possible. It isn't even space, it's just nothing at all. Of course I immediately changed that, but I am still wondering how many people have the default still in their routers.
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@coderpatsy said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
@masonwheeler said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
@anonymous234 Is this better or worse than Charter, which IIRC sends out routers with a randomized password in the form
AdjectiveNoun##
? (Such asSolidBanana37
orBeautifulChicken58
...)BalefulHunter2
?I was thinking more
CluelessHunter2
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@Quwertzuiopp said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
I have a 400k connection
That was slow for home broadband 10 years ago. It doesn't even count as broadband/high speed these days as most Government targets and the like define 2M as the minimum for "high speed". That's also what Netflix recommend, so they obviously don't need throttling
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@Jaloopa Whoops, I meant 400Mbit. But it's one of those "200M guaranteed, 400M most of the time" So far it has allmost allways been 400 to the point when I measured, but I wouldn't ever need it. The only reason they upgraded me for free from 200M to 400M is because I am some kind of Labrat for upgrading their network to 400M, that's why it's technically only 200M guaranteed.
This is Germany, in some cities and rural areas you would have a better conncetion if you lived in the middle of Siberia, literally.
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@sloosecannon said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
@Lathun said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
Time Wizard Cable
Time Warner Cable:
"At least we're not Comcast™"
But I thought American ISPs were friendly companies that only provided the best for the customer, because there's so much competition they'd go bankrupt otherwise.
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@anonymous234 said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
But I thought American ISPs were friendly companies that only provided the best for the customer, because there's so much competition they'd go bankrupt otherwise.
Yes, that's exactly what everyone on this site tells you, so I can see how you'd get that impression.
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@coderpatsy Is that where you hunter someone who isn't a willing creature, but allowing a save to resist?
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