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[Jez]

Afternoon folks,

I've recently received a new "wireless" modem from CYTA to support my ADSL service.



One question: WIRELESS!? WTF?

My brother in law received one about a month ago and told me the wireless feature is disabled, so when the tech guy came to install my Myvision connection and update my modem I quized him about the "wireless" feature.

He confirmed the situation highlighted by my brother in law. No wireless. But he did hint that some people have sussed a way to re-enable the feature.

Anyone got any ideas? Any help / advice would be great.

Take it easy! Jez

[tcklim]

huh? Why would they disable the feature if it's already available on the modem? That's retarded..... I use wireless over in Switzerland and can't live without it anymore

[Jez]

I know, retarded. go figure!

I've had quite a bit of contact with CYTA (phone, i-choice, Myvision) and at every point with every issue there are headaches. This latest masterstroke didn't surprise me, although it should, it just makes me more confident that as soon as good competition becomes more avaliable (Primetel anyone?) Cyta are going to need to pull their socks up!

sit back, take 5 and smile.

Jez

[tcklim]

Try to find the model number of the modem and manufacturer, goto the website, download the manual, find out how to log into its system and the feature should be able to be turned on from in there.....

I've messed around with the internal settings of my wireless modem b4..... the option was there on mine, but its not ur model.

[Jez]

tcklim,

Thanks for the advice, one problem tho. My Bro in Law did exactly as you suggested.

"find the model number of the modem and manufacturer, goto the website, download the manual"

he got he manual as a .PDF, turns out its in hebrew / arabic. (apologies for the ignorance there!) So not much joy. He did find the default IP address and password in the manual but when, at the appropriate time, he used it, no go. I guess the fact that the manual is in a language he didn't understand kinda screwed his chances of winging it.

I'II keep looking to see if I can find an english / greek version and take it from there.

Any other help / inside experience / theoretical tech stuff would be gladly received!

nice one, Jez

[morhekil]

It seems that CYTA changes the default passwords to something else and never tells anyone the password for their modems. I've tried to reconfigure the usual (non-wireless) CYTA's modem some time ago and faced the same problem - default password doesn't work and CYTA doesn't want to tell me the correct one.

[tcklim]

Wouldn't the reset button also reset the password? Though maybe you'd have to play around with settings etc.

[morhekil]

Yes, it should, but as I don't know anything about the current settings and CYTA again (guess what?) doesn't want to tell me anything about it except "Never try to do this at home", I've dropped this idea. If anyone tried it and succeed - it'll be very interesting to hear about this experience.

[Jez]

morhekil, tcklim,

All valid thoughts. I started thinking down the "reset" route, but quickly realised I'd be getting myself into a whole lot of potential "OOPPS, better ring CYTA" problems. And as Morhekil pointed out, CYTA aren't exactly forthcoming with info and a quick response and speedy resolution is definately not there strongest card.

I'II keep an ear to the ground and see if more answers come up. Again, any experienced advice would be great and I recon quite a few people would benefit from this info becoming availiable.

Cheers

[Sotos]

Cyta blocks this functionality intentionally for the same reason you can only use one of the ports of the modem even it has 4. The logic is that if you want more than one computer connected you have to upgrade to their "business" packages