So long story short my current flatmates old flatmate orgainsed the net a year and a half ago and could never get it working.

Yes, she was paying for a service she couldn't use, somewhat stupid, but there ya go (she is blonde)

I've not got it working (the username in the router was wrong, lols) however the password in the is correct. The router 'held' the password but ti's blocked out. Given that she (ex flatmate) set it up over a year ago, she can't remember the password.

I want to get the password so I can drop the shitty dynalink modem and use my billion and secondly login to the user area to upgrade the plan to an unlimited service (we must be on some uber small plan as I am shaped).

Are there any free programes that 'unhide' blanked out passwords?

Thanks!

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Heardy. Ring ISP change password, done ;)

If she no longer lives there then tell her to cancel it?

On some of the old netgears, you could go to the ADSL setup page and do right click -> view source to retrieve the password. Worth a try. They actually had code which read:
<input type="password" name="password" value="pwd123etc">

Also the other way you could get it is by using the Backup Config feature which has the password in plaintext.

Another way is to telnet/ssh into the modem (usually involves activating debug mode somehow) and dig around in /etc

similarly to habib, use firebug in firefox and edit the password element and change its type to "text" instead of "password".. see if that shows you the password.

trillion wins!!

unfortunately that password isn't the same as the website one (TPG). I'll try to get her to call up. My flatmate tells me her dad set it up so she probably has no idea anyway.

The reason I don't want to disconnect it is because I'd then not have any interwebs - I know that sounds bad, but the internet is used so much these days it's essential!!

Google search the model number and factory reset it?

With TPG you can change the contact person, Payment details and plan and everything online. But only she will be the 'Authorised' person on the account and only she can change or add another person to that.

remember snadboys revelation? orrjeah