Ummm... if you are an AT&T customer, then your homeportal would have prompted you to create an admin password when it first was setup and configured. It's part of the setup routine and can't be skipped. If the password was set to "admin" or "password" then someone chose that for ease of use, perhaps it was installed by a lazy DSL install technician.
All 2wire wireless routers that have ever shipped (something north of 6 million) have shipped with at least 64-bit WEP as default encryption based on that random 10-digit number. it's not perfect, but it's still 100% more encryption than you'd get with most big-box purchased standalone routers. I use WPA, but even plain WEP is nice when there are four or five available unencrypted access points visible in my neighborhood, which isn't even that dense with housing (typical suburbia).
with all the other things starting to come out with wifi, and everyone and their brother defaulting to WiFi channel 6, it'd probably be a better idea to just change the channel.
i've got an HG homeportal, turned up to 400 milliwatts, and i changed it to channel 11, as several of my neighbors have linksys and netgear units, and they can fight all they want over channel 6, i'll take the higher road (frequency, whatever...)
according to the 2Wire website, the mediaportal will be able to record up to three things at once:
http://www.2wire.com/?p=11
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IPTV, Satellite and Digital Television Receiver
MediaPortal is capable of receiving satellite and local off-air television programming in both high-definition (HD) and standard-definition (SD) formats. Multiple tuners coupled with the high-definition, high-capacity Digital Video Recorder allow you to watch and record up to 3 programs simultaneously. Enjoy the best picture and sound available through the HD video and Dolby® Digital 5.1 audio outputs.
Well, as stated, that's not totally accurate...
The homeportal units are tied into the system for automated updates, you can still do updates and such remotely, all you need is the upgrade file itself (which are floating around, to some extent)
the routing functions can (as previously stated) be turned off, but that's just a nice way of making a multi-port bridging modem, with wireless, HPNA, ethernet and USB connectivity. not the best option for most people when they have to login using some form of PPP sessions...
the setup process of the homeportal is newbie-friendly, but it's also pretty configurable for more advanced users... perhaps you've used one of the older firmware revisions... i have a new HG unit, with the high-powered 802.11g WAP, and it's quite nice... it comes with WEP on by default (100% more security than the total lack from netgear, linksys, etc) and has WPA available if you want to upgrade wireless security.
as for the port-forwarding, as noted by pHDNgell, the system will pick up on the DHCP hostname... and as long as you're assigning a static IP in the proper range, your static systems show up as the static IP in the local network list (and you can rename that in the list, if you want)
now, SpaceLifeForm, that browse to 192.168.1.1 is actually for a Linksys unit... the homeportal has a SPI firewall, but again, has at least WEP turned on by default (set to a random string)
provided you're full-time and a permanant (not temp) employee.
It's quite a nice perk, and they explained that as they are a broadband equipment/services-related company, they felt that all employees should have broadband access in order to take advantage of the company's equipment (a home/small office gateway router).
I have both cable and DSL paid for, as i do testing of equipment on both from home, so it's even better. DSL at 1.5meg down/1meg up and cable at 4meg down/384k up.
I've heard about this issue with some of the cards... unfortunately i also read a few very disturbing articles about WiFi thruput on CF or SDIO when used with PDA's...
And i will freely admit to lusting after the cheapie 4 gig microdrives in the nomad mp3 player.... the greatest benefit to my IPAQ and the primary reason that i purchased it was the fact that it has both CompactFlash and SDIO expansion slots...
i had planned to get the 4 gig microdrive for storage of media files (maybe a couple gigs of MP3s, a few hundred megs of ebooks and a few movies) and a SDIO wifi card for wlan. I hadn't thought of movie files, but you can get a 256meg rip of a dvd with stereo sound and full-PDA resolution... pretty nice for travel! I just burn a few to cd/dvd for longer trips and transfer then around when necessary.
So if someone just wanted to gift a 2gig SD card to a poor technician, i sure wouldn't look that gift horse in the mouth...;-)
i remember when the movie theater by my house had a stand-up Race Drivin'... those were the days... of course, i didn't know how to drive stick, but i still enjoyed the other features of the game...
I'd be looking around for an old-style sit-down cabinet, and then get a copy of the old "Hard Drivin" or "Race Drivin" game...
Vector graphics, decent force-feedback and an operable clutch, which can really show you who knows how to drive. The physics were pretty realistic, even allowing for throttle steering.
Of course, it only came with a four-speed transmission, but it's better than the contemporaries, which had no clutch and paddle shifters, with laughable physics.
Sounds like what happened to a friend of mine recently who devised his own "Homebrew" watercooling rig for his Athlon64...
The steaming vents on the case gave mute testimony to the utter destruction the water made as it transisioned rapidly from liquid form to gaseous form. Poor devil...
Of course, I could also see something like that from the original "Wild, Wild West" tv show (and not the horrific movie of the same name), or maybe "Brisco County, Jr.".
It is a sad fact that quite a lot of countries "forget" these sorts of facts, and then decide to repress whomever they can to keep the truth hidden.
Even right now there are a number of conflicts where nations are fighting for their "historical" provinces or territories.
These are the same rational that Hitler used when annexing areas like Austria, Czechoslovakia, and the Rhineland , or when Saddam Hussein attempted to annex Kuwait, which started the first Gulf War.
Unfortunately, these policies will probably continue, but with the Internet and other information sources available to more and more people everyday, hopefully there will be a more educated people to fight such actions when taken by their governments.
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Oh, and a more open architecture would be a bit of a help too...
Actually, the four RBOC's are the companies that had comprised AT&T after it was broken up in 1983.
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ILEC's are telephone companies that were in service when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was enacted, of which there were more than 100... Link
It is quite true, however, that if you are getting phonelines to your house, you are going to be using an ILEC who provides the copper pair... of course, I have digital phone service along with cable tv and cablemodem, so it's all going thru the nice, fat cable pipeline...
Actually, SBC is one of the four major RBOC (Regional Bell Operating Companies, the biggest of the Baby Bells)...
They started as SBC (Southwestern Bell Company) in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri, then started buying other Baby Bells. They bought SNET (Connecticut), Ameritech (Illinois, Wisconson, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio) and recently PacBell/Nevada Bell (California and Nevada).
Verizon covers most of the rest of the New England states and also Kentuky, West Virginia and Virginia.
BellSouth covers the US South, with North & South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida.
Qwest (formerly USWest) covers the US West and Northwest, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, North & South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota.
There's a few other Local Exchange Carriers around, but they're generally minor, and Verizon has some odd-ball areas in Southern California, Florida and a couple other places that used to be GTE areas.
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Ummm... if you are an AT&T customer, then your homeportal would have prompted you to create an admin password when it first was setup and configured. It's part of the setup routine and can't be skipped. If the password was set to "admin" or "password" then someone chose that for ease of use, perhaps it was installed by a lazy DSL install technician. All 2wire wireless routers that have ever shipped (something north of 6 million) have shipped with at least 64-bit WEP as default encryption based on that random 10-digit number. it's not perfect, but it's still 100% more encryption than you'd get with most big-box purchased standalone routers. I use WPA, but even plain WEP is nice when there are four or five available unencrypted access points visible in my neighborhood, which isn't even that dense with housing (typical suburbia).
with all the other things starting to come out with wifi, and everyone and their brother defaulting to WiFi channel 6, it'd probably be a better idea to just change the channel. i've got an HG homeportal, turned up to 400 milliwatts, and i changed it to channel 11, as several of my neighbors have linksys and netgear units, and they can fight all they want over channel 6, i'll take the higher road (frequency, whatever...)
http://www.2wire.com/?p=11
(quote) IPTV, Satellite and Digital Television Receiver
MediaPortal is capable of receiving satellite and local off-air television programming in both high-definition (HD) and standard-definition (SD) formats. Multiple tuners coupled with the high-definition, high-capacity Digital Video Recorder allow you to watch and record up to 3 programs simultaneously. Enjoy the best picture and sound available through the HD video and Dolby® Digital 5.1 audio outputs.
the routing functions can (as previously stated) be turned off, but that's just a nice way of making a multi-port bridging modem, with wireless, HPNA, ethernet and USB connectivity. not the best option for most people when they have to login using some form of PPP sessions...
the setup process of the homeportal is newbie-friendly, but it's also pretty configurable for more advanced users... perhaps you've used one of the older firmware revisions... i have a new HG unit, with the high-powered 802.11g WAP, and it's quite nice... it comes with WEP on by default (100% more security than the total lack from netgear, linksys, etc) and has WPA available if you want to upgrade wireless security.
as for the port-forwarding, as noted by pHDNgell, the system will pick up on the DHCP hostname... and as long as you're assigning a static IP in the proper range, your static systems show up as the static IP in the local network list (and you can rename that in the list, if you want)
now, SpaceLifeForm, that browse to 192.168.1.1 is actually for a Linksys unit... the homeportal has a SPI firewall, but again, has at least WEP turned on by default (set to a random string)
It's quite a nice perk, and they explained that as they are a broadband equipment/services-related company, they felt that all employees should have broadband access in order to take advantage of the company's equipment (a home/small office gateway router).
I have both cable and DSL paid for, as i do testing of equipment on both from home, so it's even better. DSL at 1.5meg down/1meg up and cable at 4meg down/384k up.
Tom's Hardware and WiFi Planet... somewhat dishartening, i suppose..
i had planned to get the 4 gig microdrive for storage of media files (maybe a couple gigs of MP3s, a few hundred megs of ebooks and a few movies) and a SDIO wifi card for wlan. I hadn't thought of movie files, but you can get a 256meg rip of a dvd with stereo sound and full-PDA resolution... pretty nice for travel! I just burn a few to cd/dvd for longer trips and transfer then around when necessary.
So if someone just wanted to gift a 2gig SD card to a poor technician, i sure wouldn't look that gift horse in the mouth... ;-)
i remember when the movie theater by my house had a stand-up Race Drivin'... those were the days... of course, i didn't know how to drive stick, but i still enjoyed the other features of the game...
Vector graphics, decent force-feedback and an operable clutch, which can really show you who knows how to drive. The physics were pretty realistic, even allowing for throttle steering.
Of course, it only came with a four-speed transmission, but it's better than the contemporaries, which had no clutch and paddle shifters, with laughable physics.
I can hear it now, "NASA can bite my shiny metal a$$" /bender
Perhaps the PRL will purchased by some international conglomerate and renamed to "Mom's Friendly Robot Company"
The steaming vents on the case gave mute testimony to the utter destruction the water made as it transisioned rapidly from liquid form to gaseous form. Poor devil...
Of course, I could also see something like that from the original "Wild, Wild West" tv show (and not the horrific movie of the same name), or maybe "Brisco County, Jr.".
Even right now there are a number of conflicts where nations are fighting for their "historical" provinces or territories.
These are the same rational that Hitler used when annexing areas like Austria, Czechoslovakia, and the Rhineland , or when Saddam Hussein attempted to annex Kuwait, which started the first Gulf War.
Unfortunately, these policies will probably continue, but with the Internet and other information sources available to more and more people everyday, hopefully there will be a more educated people to fight such actions when taken by their governments.
is a young priest and an old priest...
Oh, and a more open architecture would be a bit of a help too...
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Unfortunately, such a strike could also affect me, as I live in Arizona, also served (so to speak) by Qwest...
ILEC's are telephone companies that were in service when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was enacted, of which there were more than 100... Link
It is quite true, however, that if you are getting phonelines to your house, you are going to be using an ILEC who provides the copper pair... of course, I have digital phone service along with cable tv and cablemodem, so it's all going thru the nice, fat cable pipeline...
They started as SBC (Southwestern Bell Company) in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri, then started buying other Baby Bells. They bought SNET (Connecticut), Ameritech (Illinois, Wisconson, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio) and recently PacBell/Nevada Bell (California and Nevada).
Verizon covers most of the rest of the New England states and also Kentuky, West Virginia and Virginia.
BellSouth covers the US South, with North & South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida.
Qwest (formerly USWest) covers the US West and Northwest, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, North & South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota.
There's a few other Local Exchange Carriers around, but they're generally minor, and Verizon has some odd-ball areas in Southern California, Florida and a couple other places that used to be GTE areas.