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

[Colin Law]

2009/8/25 Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr>:
> 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.
>

So when you try and connect to the internet does it come up with a
page asking for username/password? If so where does this page come
from, what is the address in the browser title bar?

Colin