You are seeing the default 16 dots representing your actual shorter password.
If it didn't have any dots, it has no password. Just use the 16 dots and it
should connect fine. Don't correct them.

"ratman" wrote:

The "dialer" box always has a default(?) 16 char password in
it and I have to enter the correct password by hand. It seems to
remember other stuff like the phone number.