Lost Network Key

joeblack066 · 2 August 2011 at 10:57PM

I've recently had Sky broadband, and having set up the wireless router and accessd it via my laptop, I foolishly gave my usually careful daughter the slip with the key on it - she set up her ipod but not her laptop and promptly lost the paper! Can I convert the dots on the properties back to numbers/ letters at all? Its driving me insane lol!! Thanks!

closed · 2 August 2011 at 11:08PM

login to the router, and find or change it

eyeinthesky · 2 August 2011 at 11:17PM

I think the info is printed on a sticker on the router, have a look!

Just checked, it is on mine !

scheming_gypsy · 2 August 2011 at 11:24PM

closed wrote: »

login to the router, and find or change it

can you do with Sky? i was under the impression they locked the router down so nobody could do anything with it.

closed · 2 August 2011 at 11:26PM

you can login with
admin
sky
usually, and then the interface is much like any netgear router.

Enterprise_1701C · 3 August 2011 at 7:47AM

With our router you can go into security and "show the password" or something like that, meaning it turns from dots into characters.

tibbyuk · 3 August 2011 at 9:20AM

If you have the connection setup on a laptop or PC, you can view the password by going to the network and sharing centre, then manage wireless networks, then properties on your network and under the password field untick the box that says "hide characters".