The exact same WiFi including password with a new router?
Hello everyone,
My mother has internet via Telekom DSL and the Telekom router Speedport 3.
After a disruption lasting several days, she received a new Speedport smart 4 router today and I set it up with her over the phone.
What surprises me is that we didn't actually have to set anything up.
My mother was able to access the internet with her phone and tablet immediately after connecting the cables – using the old Wi-Fi and password saved on the devices.
Even though the new router has a different WiFi name and password on the back?
That's what amazes me so much.
Even the Roborock vacuum cleaner woke up after several days of standby and was immediately connected.
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The old configuration was simply overplayed on the new router. If you allow the remote management of the router, the provider can do this. No fear, the WLAN password does not know the provider because only a hash is stored anyway.
Hi.
the routers you get from the Internet provider are often preconfigured. Probably the old configuration was simply taken over to the new router, so there has not changed much.
It looks like the old configuration of the access was simply transferred to the new device. All moder modems are remotely configurable. And since your provider knows the old and new address of the modems, that’s not witchcraft.
LG Culles
Hello Koston85,
as has been written here, this is generally difficult. If you store the configuration, it can be reinstalled on the new router. It is also possible to redeem the same WLAN name and key directly.
Best regards
Natalie
We didn’t have to store and reinstall or set up anything – it was already so out of the box with the new router. The same WLAN name with the old password, otherwise the devices could not have connected to the WLAN.
Hm, very interesting. This would then have to have been set up accordingly in general (possibly by us). Never mind.
I’m glad everything goes with the new router. 😊
Best regards
Natalie
Can two random different people also get the same password? Is that risky?
It cannot be the same WLAN by the new router, even if SSID and password have been set identically – and that is not exactly what Deutsche Telekom did on the new router when the new router is simply sent.
Even the MAC address of the new router is different, which is why it cannot logically be the same network for the terminals.
Sure? Didn’t she accidentally use the mobile data of the mobile radio operator? This simply means that the devices cannot connect to a router that is configured with new SSID and new password.
So there’s something wrong here.
Really. That’s why I asked the question.
The tablet is also online – and this has no SIM card.
And the Roborock woke up again from the standby.
It’s in the standby because the internet had a few days of trouble.
I couldn’t believe it either 🥴- and that’s why I wanted to ask again.
For me, the other 2 answers are plausible, but I am not an Internet nerd;-).
The WLAN, which is on the back of the router, is not even displayed. It’s the old one in which the devices were logged in.
That’s not possible.
That’s it. The other answers here aren’t your opinion.
Then I don’t know better.