How to obtain your username and password from the sky router

[reluctant networker]

Originally Posted by Saturday

Sky don't want you to know the username and password for your ADSL connection. With the V1 router a URL injection workaround was developed by Jose to gain access to the hidden details. No such workaround has been developed for the new V2 router - yet.

Hey Guys,

I'm new to the forum so hello to everyone. I don't work in IT nor am I technically trained in any way - hence the unusual moniker!

I promise, however, that this isn't just another post raising the usual start-up probs & issues already well documented throughout this forum - I would really appreciate some comments and advice as to whether in view of my particular circumstances and broadband needs, it is worth me persevering with sky broadband or whether I should just cut my losses now, sack sky broadband and go with another ISP who lets you use your own router.

By way of background, I signed up for sky broadband 'mid' last month, having previously been with supanet on their 2 meg service which never 'fell over' once or gave me any probs whatsoever. Our home network comprising 3 desktops, a laptop and 2 xbox 360s was absolutely seamless. In particular, once I had turned on the UnP in my belkin router web interface, both the xbox 360s always had open NAT all the time, even when played on at the same time. The signal strength throughout the house (which is quite big) was good. For me, it was, I now appreciate, 'broadband heaven' - it simply always worked!

Now that I am on sky, I have the following probs :

1. Can only get open NAT on one xbox 360 at a time, the other is either moderate or strict. I've tried increasing the 'adverisement time to live' digit in the UnP section of the sky/netgear DG834GT web interface - I can get the NAT open on each xbox but this is always at the expense of the NAT on the other - can't get both open at the same time.

2. We recently got a PS3 and whilst the network test shows 'NAT2', it says UnP is unavailable even though it is switched on in the DG834GT web interface.

3. The signal strength downstairs is not good (the router is upstairs) causing laggy online gaming with both the xbox & ps3 downstairs.

4. My son can no longer play World of Warcraft - his character is unable to interact with others and he just keeps getting disconnected all the time - the probs only started after we had tfrd to sky.


I understand the NAT probs can only be alleviated by a different router as the DG834GT has aggressive NAT. In the circs, I've tried J Cardozo's URL injection hack but just got the message 'error 404 - file not found'. I managed to get into the cfg. file via doing a router back-up and opening the file with notepad but the adsl username & password is hidden. I therefore assume that even though I have the old DG834GT (not the new 934), my router firmware has been updated to close the access - my firmware version is :
V1.02.08.

What I really want to know is whether it is likely someone will come up with a workround to get the adsl username & password from the V.2 firmware in the near future?

I appreciate no-one has a crystal ball but just wondered if there are any rumours or murmerings amongst the technical community as to whether anyone is on the verge of coming up with an answer so that us V.2 users can be freed from sky's shackles. Because of my lack of technical knowledge, I have no idea how hard it will be for someone to come up with a workaround - if it is likely to take months and months, I will approach sky re buying out the broadband part of my contract with them as I'm simply not prepared to wait another 11 months before I can migrate.

Thanks for bearing with me guys. Any comments, suggestions and advice gratefully rec'd.

[Saturday]

Originally Posted by reluctant networker

I've tried J Cardozo's URL injection hack but just got the message 'error 404 - file not found'. I managed to get into the cfg. file via doing a router back-up and opening the file with notepad but the adsl username & password is hidden. I therefore assume that even though I have the old DG834GT (not the new 934), my router firmware has been updated to close the access - my firmware version is :
V1.02.08.

You have a V1 router with the original (current) firmware. You should be able to get the username and password without any problems - my guess is you were doing something wrong.

Jose's method is packaged up in a utility called Mognuts which is available here. Click the "Get" (username and password) button, follow the prompts then go back to click the "Download" button. Save the file then open it in Notepad/Wordpad or similar.

Originally Posted by reluctant networker

What I really want to know is whether it is likely someone will come up with a workround to get the adsl username & password from the V.2 firmware in the near future?

With regard to your networking problem, maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are trying to do (e.g. what do you mean by "the DG834GT has aggressive NAT") but you should be able to run the devices you need without much difficulty using the Sky router you have.

Can I suggest you start a new thread in the gaming sub-forum explaining what it is you are trying to do, how you have it currently set up and what the problems are.

Lastly, wireless is a poor method of connecting a single device let alone several. Wired would be much better - ethernet cables are very cheap or if you must be wireless consider using something like powerline (uses your mains wiring)..

[reluctant networker]

OK thanks very much for your prompt attention and advice - I'll give the mognuts utility a go - fingers crossed...

As regards the NAT issues, if I can extract my adsl username & password, these will be resolved as I know my belkin router will allow all the games consoles full, unfettered access to multiplayer games such as COD3 & Halo3.

Once again, many thanks - if this comes off you will have made my life a whole lot easier and less stressful!

[reluctant networker]

Its worked!!!!!

With the belkin, the NATs on both Xbox 360s are now open which will allow both my boys to play in the same Halo3 multiplayer games together.

Also, the wireless signal is a lot stronger on all devices on the network.

I owe you a massive thank you - I really appreciate your help, and so do my boys.

Nice one.

Cheers.

[Tris1979]

Hi Everyone

I have just recived my skyBB netgear DG934G Router does anyone know how i can get the username and password from this model? I had no idea i was going to be forced into using this piece of S**T I cant get my sling player to work with this router, it wont even see it!

Cheers,

Tris

[Chris_H]

Originally Posted by Tris1979

Hi Everyone

I have just recived my skyBB netgear DG934G Router does anyone know how i can get the username and password from this model? I had no idea i was going to be forced into using this piece of S**T I cant get my sling player to work with this router, it wont even see it!

Cheers,

Tris

Unfortunately there is no way of doing this at the moment. No doubt some clever soul will find a solution soon.

[horny_kez]

Hi Guys, I was just wondering if anybody knows yet of a way to obtain username and password from the DG934G1?
I know somebody has previously asked but as it was a while ago I thought I would try my luck!

Thanks in advance.

[alex-k]

when i try to upgrade fireware my upgrade programm is messed up

[T1Cybernetic]

Originally Posted by alex-k

when i try to upgrade fireware my upgrade programm is messed up

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This is the exact same problem myself and others are having i have reinstalled windows a couple of times and tried every trick i could think of to get it to update but "nothing works on this pc"

I'm going to take it to a friends house and see if it will flash from there i'm thinking it must be a graphics or a network driver preventing me from updating the router.

[Chris_H]

Are you using a advert or pop-up blocker? Sometimes these can cause these issues. If so, try turning them off and trying again.