Get rid of the authentication page on your ACT Broadband Connection

Here’s how to avoid having to login via their Authentication portal everyday on your ACT Broadband Connection.


I just moved on to a high-speed ACT Broadband connection a few weeks back. So far I’ve been pretty happy with the line speeds I’ve been getting from this connection.

Speed Tests on the ACT broadband connection — unlike the Airtel connection I had, this connection comes with nice upload speed.

The only issue I’ve had so far is that ACT forces me to go to a their portal every day to log in for the connection. While this may not be a major issue if I was using this connection only for my laptop, it’s a pain when I or someone else at home has to do this from a phone or tablet connected via WiFi. Try getting a 3 and 5 year old to remember a numeric account number and password and enter that via their android tablet’s browser — that’s just not happening!

Their installation engineer who setup the connection didn’t mention that there’s any way around this portal based login either.

After playing around with the settings on the WiFi router I found a way to bypass this portal based login if I set it up to do a PPPoE connection. It’s quite simple.

The interface may differ based on which router you have but the steps remain the same.

First head over to http://portal.acttv.in/ and logout of your account there. This step is important since the next steps may fail if you don’t logout from here first.

Then login into your Wifi Router and head to an option Called WAN connection or in the case of Belkin (the one I have), the ISP Connection Type.

Select the PPPoE method of connection

You’ll have to change this to PPPoE instead of the Dynamic connection which is set as default for you. Once you set that up, all you need to do next is to provide your ACT username (in my case it was a numeric account number) and password to the router.

Enter your ACT broadband username (usually a numeric account number) and password

Make sure the “Service Name” is kept blank, and the MTU is set to 1454, and save your settings. Your router should save your settings and restart itself. Once it’s started up, wait for a minute or two and head over to http://portal.acttv.in/ and check if you’ve been logged in automatically.

That’s about all you have to do and bye bye login screen!

Crossposted from >120 Characters.