My Tech Adventures

Hello Again! Although the home hub (HH) routers can be both configured via the web interface and the configuration wizard software (see part 1  here ), there is another 'hidden' powerful tool in the form of CLI that not only provides configuration options but many extra options too. In order to use the CLI interface, one needs to have a Telnet Client in the form of the client built into WindowsOS or a separate utility like PuTTY . The CLI Reference, uploaded at http://1drv.ms/1NlbDf6 , shall also come in handy. An example for changing the DNS Server Addresses : telnet 192.168.1.254 dns server route ? dns server route list dns server route add dns = 199.85.126.20 metric = 5 intf = Internet dns server route add dns = 8.26.56.26 metric = 7 intf = Internet - I have used the DNS Server Address of Norton DNS and Comodo DNS respectively in this case as an example ... replace with your own  - The 'Metric' can be thought of as prior...

DSL Let's take a look at SNR Margin Tweaks: The command to be used is > xdslctl configure --snr {value}  N Change in target noise margin (dB) 200 + 6dB 150 + 3dB 100 + 0dB 50 - 3dB 25 - 4.5db 1 - 5.5dB 65500 - 9 dB 65450 - 12 dB where {value} can be as shown in the table above taken from http://www.kitz.co.uk/routers/dg834GT_targetsnr.htm such that if more stable connection is desired, 150 or 200 should be used and if faster connection/sync is required at cost of stability, 50 or 25 could be used! Note that for PTCL, there is no max speed package as of today, ...

With Telnet access, more options become available that are not accessible via the web interface! Since the router uses the Broadcom chipset, we can apply almost all the same tweaks as documented for other Broadcom based routers: Here is the list of commands (Password is the one set by you): BCM96328 Broadband Router Login: admin Password: > ? ? help logout exit quit reboot adsl xdslctl xtm brctl cat loglevel logdest virtualserver ddns syslog echo ifconfig ping ps pwd sntp sysinfo tftp wlctl arp defaultgateway dhcpserver dns lan lanhosts passwd ppp restoredefault route save swversion cfgupdate swupdate exitOnIdle wan There is also Shell access: > sh BusyBox v1.00 (2012.05.30-12:11+0000) Built-in shell (msh) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. With regards to dsl modem, the commands "adsl" and "xd...