O2 Broadband router changes

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O2 Broadband router changes

These are the changes that i did to the router. Obviously some assumptions made here but last week the changes made a difference, I think resetting the box yesterday lost the changes.

Wanting to improve the wifi as at the moment believe the adsl is good but the box is crap at wifi and juggling everything else it needs to do.

Via the web interface

• When logged in, click on wireless, then select configure from the top right and then do this:
  • Power reduction enabled should be disabled (We want the box to dedicate
  • Channel selection should be manual (we don't want the box doing more wifi that it needs)
  • Select the channel 6 (I have ran kismac and scanned our area, this is least used at the moment)
  • Select WPA as WPA-PSK Version (Again to reduce the amount the box does for wifi, rather than switch between WPA+WPA2 for clients)
• Apply those changes

Telnet to the box and change the interface type

$ telnet 192.168.1.254
Trying 192.168.1.254...
Connected to 192.168.1.254.
Escape character is '^]'.
Username : SuperUser
Password : <Serial number or defined password from User management web interface>

To show help commands that can be ran

{SuperUser}=> help

pull cpu/mem information on the box:

{SuperUser}=> system
{SuperUser}[system]=> debug
{SuperUser}[system debug]=> cpu
CPU (%):    Idle     User     Kernel
           93.94     1.01     5.05
{SuperUser}[system debug]=>mem
Total:                    44004 KB
Used:                     32064 KB
  by kernel:               8756 KB
  by applications:        23308 KB

Disabling 802.11n

{SuperUser}=>wireless
{SuperUser}[wireless]=>radio
Admin [up] Oper [up] band [2.4GHz] Interop [802.11b/g/n] channel[6]
{SuperUser}[wireless]=>menu
# select radio
# select interop
# Enter 802.11b/g
# press tab and ok
{SuperUser}[wireless]=>saveall

Notes

To move to previous menu selection enter '..'

{SuperUser}[system debug]=> ..

To delete a character use Ctrl-H as backspace is not bound correctly