[ubuntu-in] BSNL Broadband

[Anurag]

On 10/22/06, G Rajesh <ganesanrajesh at gmail.com> wrote:
> True. Sorry for this delayed response. Being a Chartered Accountant, I have
> been busy with my professional commitments.
> I should thank Mr BG for his valuable suggestion. To be frank, I have been
> using this Dataone Broadband for around 15 months without knowing this
> facility to alter this settings. Well, I have done it now and have told my
> friends too.

cool! one more thing.
just make sure that you change the default password of modem's user
from "admin" to something else. the default username admin can be
guessed by anybody to do all kind of nasty things :-)

> BTW, does the firewall settings in Dataone's router affect the performance?
> Also, I find the data transfered stops after some time. We have to switch the
> router off and switch it on back to get the transfer back. I understand, our
> ISP Dataone does this to save their bandwidth, right? Any way, we can avoid
> this?


firewall included with adsl modem is normal packet filtering software.
it cannot affect performance at all.

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Anurag <http://www.gnuer.org>