Spark ADSL new router don't need password?

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BillyFieldman

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#273277 14-Aug-2020 08:40

I've been using the TG582N router provided by Telecom (now Spark) for the past few years. I remember having to put in the broadband id and password when I set it up to connect to the Spark ADSL broadband.

Yesterday, a mate of mine gave me an NF4V from Slingshot that he's no longer using after switching ISP to 2 degrees. He told me to just do a reset and it should be good to go. I took it home, connect up the cables and power supply followed by reset and true enough, it was connected.

I used https://www.whoismyisp.org/ to check and it says I'm on Spark and not Slingshot.

Am I really using my own Spark broadband without having to login or is it someone else's?

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#2540673 14-Aug-2020 08:43

Spark use port based authenticated for xDSL so any password/username combo will work, as long as there are no strange characters in either.

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#2540687 14-Aug-2020 09:00

just disable TR-069 so any previous provider cant see it online

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#2540697 14-Aug-2020 09:09

nztim:

just disable TR-069 so any previous provider cant see it online

ideally providers shouldn't allow TR069 outside of their network ;)

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#2540705 14-Aug-2020 09:17

hio77:

nztim:

just disable TR-069 so any previous provider cant see it online

ideally providers shouldn't allow TR069 outside of their network ;)

I reckon

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#2540881 14-Aug-2020 11:23

hio77:
nztim:

just disable TR-069 so any previous provider cant see it online

ideally providers shouldn't allow TR069 outside of their network ;)

Ideally and Reality are not the same :)

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BillyFieldman

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#2540888 14-Aug-2020 11:26

RunningMan:

Spark use port based authenticated for xDSL so any password/username combo will work, as long as there are no strange characters in either.

Thanks. So Spark identified me by using my landline and ignored whatever is in the username and password that's in the NF4V?

BillyFieldman

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#2540894 14-Aug-2020 11:29

nztim:

just disable TR-069 so any previous provider cant see it online

I found the TR-069 settings in the "management" section of the router. It is enabled and "greyed off" so I can't change it from enable to disable.

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#2540896 14-Aug-2020 11:30

BillyFieldman:

RunningMan:

Spark use port based authenticated for xDSL so any password/username combo will work, as long as there are no strange characters in either.

Thanks. So Spark identified me by using my landline and ignored whatever is in the username and password that's in the NF4V?

Not quite.

How it works is when your service is setup, your assigned a particular "Address" in the chorus network.

Spark takes that "Address" and matches it to your record to authenticate you.

while you do need to enter A password and username, it is simply ignored, we don't care what's entered.

It's very much like when you post a letter. NZ post don't go let's look up this customers name, they just go you said send it to X address so there it goes.

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BillyFieldman

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#2541124 14-Aug-2020 15:54

hio77:

Not quite.

How it works is when your service is setup, your assigned a particular "Address" in the chorus network.

Spark takes that "Address" and matches it to your record to authenticate you.

while you do need to enter A password and username, it is simply ignored, we don't care what's entered.

It's very much like when you post a letter. NZ post don't go let's look up this customers name, they just go you said send it to X address so there it goes.

Thanks. That analogy with NZ post was great for my understanding.