WIFI CHANNEL CHANGE

[maughanorama]

hey all 

is there some magical invisible page on the new router that allows me to change the 2.4/5ghz channels ? the auto channel function just isnt working. 

and before anyone says look here and there and posts a link to the app. i have tried the app and im unable to even sync the app with my router.. 

is there a config editor that can open the backed up config so i can change it there and upload it back ? 

why has this function been removed from the firmware ? make 0 sense 

my internet is perfect until i try to use a 2.4ghz device then its hampered by my neighbors devices. theres a free channel i can see but unable to change to it

thanks 

[Gemma]

@richardbradley @Anonymous - We want all of our customers to receive the best possible service, including when you contact us with any issues. If there’s anything you’d like us to look into on your accounts, then we’ll just need to take some details from you securely.

Please come and talk to us over on Social Media.

[richardbradley]

Hi @gem ,

Why does Vodafone host a user forum, that doesn't have subject matter experts engage with us in this forum and then suggest we move our conversation to Social Media (which is just another Vodafone forum)?

Just a thought before I go!

[richardbradley]

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@_rik_ wrote:

When I switch (regularly because ISPs dont care at all, the proof is this thread itself), I usually search for offers with discounts/vouchers OR with Quidco that has the equivalent discount 99% of the times.

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3) No annoying 2 factors authentication to login (and I've just checked it is still this way)

That sounds very sensible - though we may need to agree to disagree about 2-factor authentication.  I value the extra layer of security it gives - but I think that if people really have the desire to opt out of 2FA (and if it is only their secuity, reputation and money at risk) then that is their right. 

(Though I may still try to convicend them of the value of 2FA.)

[_rik_]

Why not 2FA:

1) Your phone is stolen and you are in trouble while the thief is not

2) You lose the phone and you are in trouble

3) Your SIM expires and you are in trouble

4) Your PAYG SIM exprires and get cancelled and you are in trouble

5) You are abroad and you are 50% of the times in trouble if the 2FA is via SMS

6) You don't have the phone at hand and you cannot login (At home I don't want to swim in RF so I keep it power off). In any case, unless one is an idiot with the smarphone glued to the  hand, he/she/it (in case of fluid gender) has to waste time to reach the phone and or turn it on.

7) Still exists people that do not want to be traced lat/lng second by second and don't use a mobile

😎Still exists people that do not want to be traced/bothered and use dedicated SIMs/Mobiles only to satisfy the bloodsuckers hunger of mobile numbers and wild tracing of wich the 2FA it's good alibi.

If public services were only interested in 2FA for our protection they would provide a 1 pound sentry device, as a far better alternative to a smartphone, or even a simple randomize code on a plastic card from which to choose the correct answer.

I think, and fortunatly many other ISPs do, that a strong password is enough (and on the contrary, idiots will ever be fooled even with the 2FA).

[richardbradley]

Hi,

I do not diasagree with your views on 2FA it the *only* options the service provider offers is a mobile phone using SMS and/or voice pin verification.  But multi-factor authentication can use a combination of several mechanisms including app-generated authentication codes (a password manager can simplify things), voice pin verification using a land line and/or work line with extension number, USB token, app installed on multiple smart devices etc. 

P.S. I really hate the way most UK banks do it, or any company for that matter, that make you set up a numeric-only pin number with as few as four or six digits (that I can never remember) and then asks for a random subset.  Any one listening in to a few calls will soon have all your digits in the right order.  It gets worse when they also expect you to have a long, complex password and then only ask for a random subset of characters.  I can't even remember what the 15th character is in the alphabet, let alone the 15th in a compex password that will be very different to any other complex password I use - so I have to count it out on my fingers (and often get it wrong on the first attempt).

Give me a straighth forwad MFA any day - if these companies/banks have been bitten by fraudsetrs cloning mobile phones to get at the one-time pins then they need to offer a something more secure that isn't so user-unfriendly.

For some reason Vodafone moved from a 4-digit one-time pin sent via SMS to a 6 character sequence which is much more difficult to remember when glancing away from the phone - and it really offers no more account protection.  It is also very frustrating when a Vodafone support person insists that it needs to be typed in upper case (even though that's not true from the tests I've done - and neither s=is it tu=rue that the Vodafone account name needs to be in upper case).

Oh, and I'm still waiting to hear if anyone is able to successfully reach the My Vodafone login page when using a Chromebook - I can't (and no it's not my account as I can use Chrome on Windows 10 and Windows 11 as well as Edge to reach the login prompt - just not on a Chromebook).

Rant off.  4 days to wait and my broadband switch away from Vodafone will be completed.

[Cynric]

2FA: If only companies would use authenticator apps/devices rather than SMS. SIM hacking and number stealing makes reliance on the phone number too much of a risk.

Leaving VF: Hope it goes smoothly. I haven't regretted leaving.

[_rik_]

No the point is: NOT using the smartphone for authentication, at all, nor via SMS or even worse with an app.
The problem is not the password, is people. When computers were only prerogative of decent users (if not only engineers) they used to read a manual before powering on, and passwords were not a problem at all. Now, with smartphones and tablets, even people who can barely read have access online and that's the real problem.

Forcing security experts to use  UNSECURE phones (not a single phone is secure by design, starting from the proprietary OS) because unexpert people use passwords like "123", it's not the solution, it is the starting point for new problems. Sooner or later not event the 2FA will be enough, it will be necessary a 3FA, 4FA, biometry, chip in the brain... in fact I have a bank that now requires: Password +  Pin + phone tied to the bank account + special App + Fiscal Code (in Italy is assigned at birth). Isn't that ridiculous? This morning it tooks my wife half an hour to enter the account because of a problem somewhere in the chain. In the end I don't make access at all because I get p#~## every time. 😠

There is no substitute to the brain, no antivirus no more autentication factors, no laws, no nothing. On the contrary we are loosing freedom day after day just because people are not interested in the use of brain in daily activities.

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[Cynric]

Stop it, you're making me all nostalgic for my old ICL days. 🙂 

[_rik_]

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@Cynric wrote:

Stop it, you're making me all nostalgic for my old ICL days. 🙂 

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Have a look here then 🙂
http://www.vintage-icl-computers.com/

[_rik_]

No, in those times I was in Italy and I don't remember ICL as a known brand there. Moreover I'm not from the times of mainframes, I started with software development and computers with Z80/6502 -> Intel x86 -> XT -> 286 -> and so on up to now with Oasis, Theos, DOS, Unix/Xenix, Windows, Linux. My first computer was this one (actually a previous version and then I had also this model) 🙂