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Talktalk's boxes have the WPA passcode on a removable plastic fob attached to the back of the box.

Great until, like our neighbours, you place the box in your windowsil facing into the room.

My current default Virgin WPA password is roughly of the form lLlllNllllll (l - lowercase letter, L - uppercase letter, N - number), installed about a year ago, and I know from seeing another one that the position and quantity of the uppercase letters and numbers aren't fixed.

For the benefit of people whose fonts render "l" to look like "|", that's:

L U L L L N L L L L L L

(L - lowercase letter, U - uppercase letter, N - number)

Must be a while ago then - it's 12 characters upper, lower and digits. Pretty reasonable.