Internet access : connecting to broadbans using log-in and password ??

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:17:19 +0100
Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> That is the point, you need to connect to the built in web interface
> in the modem/router and configure the user name and password required
> by your ISP.

> Somewhere in there it should tell you where to set the
> username/password for your ISP.

> On windows the wizard (supplied with the router I presume) did this
> for you.

No no no... the router IS configured, we have connected to the
internet under XP just fine. The username and password are not supplied
to the modem/router, but to Windows. The connection "wizard", as I
said, is the standard thing featured in Windows XP (configuration
panel->New connection". We didn't use any CD/software related to the
modem itself... but just Windows' connection assistant, and among the
few choices offered, selected the option "broadband access that requires
a username and password". So I am simply asking how to achieve the same
thing under Ubuntu !

> All this assumes of course that it is the ISP username/password that
> you are talking about.  Perhaps there is a misunderstanding here.

Yesss... we are talking about the same thing. The same username and PW
that one must supply, say, on a dial-up access to identify himself,
so that the ISP can know who does what on the network, so they can
figure out who must pay how much... ;-)
That's why I am surprised that with a modern modem (ie, with a
built-in router), one still has to supply such authentication
information, since they can (and certainly do, on my antic and very
basic cable modem) identify you using the MAC address of the router, I
believe.

Maybe there is a difference between cable modems and ADSL modems in
this regard, for some technical reason that I am unaware of.


--
Vince