UPC modem/router Technicolor TC7200

minnineman1 · 01-11-2015 2:14pm

wiz569 wrote: »

minnineman1 wrote: »

Reports are it has also been disabled on the Cisco,thats why I bothered posting :P

Oh really hope mine won't be affected !

02-11-2015 9:37am

wiz569 wrote: »

minnineman1 wrote: »

Reports are it has also been disabled on the Cisco,thats why I bothered posting :P

Correct. The option is still in the UI but it does the same double reboot back into router mode.

Alan3002 · 04-11-2015 4:42pm

Might as well ask since it's been something I've been curious on.

Before the recent change and reversal I had my TC7200 bridged for months and months. During this time my second ASUS router had been rebooted but the UPC one had never been rebooted since the bridging.

Would the bridging revert if I lets say, lost power in the house?

04-11-2015 5:19pm

Change has been undone. All good in the hood.

Alan3002 · 04-11-2015 5:32pm

Karsini wrote: »

Change has been undone. All good in the hood.

Sorry I phrased that poorly given the recent events.

What I meant was, in general. With "true bridge" mode enabled. Does turning the UPC router/modem and and off tend to mess settibgs/revert changes made?

Once I setup bridge mode before. I was always afraid to turn on/off the upc router during troubleshooting incase it reverted everything and I'd have to start again.

04-11-2015 5:47pm

Alan3002 wrote: »

Sorry I phrased that poorly given the recent events.

What I meant was, in general. With "true bridge" mode enabled. Does turning the UPC router/modem and and off tend to mess settibgs/revert changes made?

Once I setup bridge mode before. I was always afraid to turn on/off the upc router during troubleshooting incase it reverted everything and I'd have to start again.

Ah no. You can safely reboot the device, everything stays as it was. You'd only lose the bridge if you do a full reset via the reset button.

rabbitinlights · 04-11-2015 8:14pm

What process are people using to get back into Bridge mode?

04-11-2015 8:16pm

rabbitinlights wrote: »

What process are people using to get back into Bridge mode?

I used the Windows port of snmpset to do it. Remove the RF cable before running. The command is:

snmpset -v:2c -c:public -r:192.168.0.1 -o:1.3.6.1.4.1.4413.2.2.2.1.7.1.1.0 -tp:int -val:1

rabbitinlights · 04-11-2015 8:55pm

any chance of a quick step by step - never used snmpset before?

Alan3002 · 04-11-2015 8:57pm

rabbitinlights wrote: »

any chance of a quick step by step - never used snmpset before?

Here ya go mate. I had this posted elsewhere.

Pre-instructions:
1. Make sure Wi-Free is disabled in your UPC account! This can take up to 72 hours to take effect once disabled.
2. Make sure you are on an IPV4 address and not an IPV6 address. You will need to directly contact UPC to change this.

Instructions:
1.Downloaded the SNMP Program from here http://www.snmpsoft.co...eetools/snmpset.html
2.Placed program on my desktop
3.Right click on program, click properties, compatibility tab, run as administrator
4.Pulled out RF cable on TC7200
5.Held reset button on the TC7200 for 30 seconds using a pin
6.Logged into the TC7200, turned off firewall (not sure if needed)
7.Turned off firewall on my windows machine
8.Connected the Laptop to the TC7200 with a direct connection
9.Clicked windows button bottom left, typed "cmd" into search bar and hit enter. CMD window appears.
10.Dragged the SNMP program onto the CMD window. It should create a line with something like "C:/Program File/User/etcetc/SNMP.exe". Don't press enter yet
11.Copied this line (right click, copy). NOTE: My router address was 192.168.100.1 and not 192.168.0.1 so change in the line of code if needed.
-v:2c -c:public -r:192.168.0.1 -o:1.3.6.1.4.1.4413.2.2.2.1.7.1.1.0 -tp:int -val:1
12.Back on the CMD window, after the SNMP.exe part press spacebar, right click and paste (ctrl + v to paste will not work in CMD window).
13.This should run the program (if not, hit enter), wait a moment, a security window will pop up, hit yes.
14. Plug the RF cable back into the UPC router.
15. Double check that the UPC router IP has changed (ipconfig /all). There may be a delay in this. Once it has changed, log into the router and check to make sure there is fewer options available than before.
16. Unplug your laptop/desktop from your UPC router and directly plug it into your new router.
17. Plug the UPC router into your new router.
18.It should work after that! True bridge mode enabled.

ThisRegard · 04-11-2015 9:11pm

It was too much to hope for the introduction of a simple flag after the reversal.

04-11-2015 9:21pm

ThisRegard wrote: »

It was too much to hope for the introduction of a simple flag after the reversal.

I might try the switch mode page and see if it's still unstable.

04-11-2015 9:37pm

OK, I just did a full 30 second reset and went back to router mode. Logged in, set language and entered the hidden page. No other changes made. Rebooted and disabled Wi-Fi after the bridge.

Will post back if I lose WAN connection.

04-11-2015 10:08pm

Right, previous advice still stands. Do not use the hidden switch-mode page. That didn't last long!

From my observation, it's not a true bridge mode. The router component is still active. On the Basic page, I could see that the modem was still obtaining the IP I had for the last week while in router mode. My guess is that the WAN connection drops when the DHCP lease on the router's IP expires.

Also, if you do a traceroute, there's an extra hop in the connection because your router is still feeding through the TC7200 router, despite being bridged:

Traceroute to google.ie with switch mode page:

1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  fritz.box [192.168.178.254]
  2     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.0.1
  3     7 ms     9 ms     7 ms  188-141-41-1.dynamic.upc.ie [188.141.41.1]
  4    13 ms    10 ms     9 ms  188-141-41-1.dynamic.upc.ie [188.141.41.1]
  5     8 ms     8 ms     6 ms  109.255.255.254
  6     7 ms     7 ms     8 ms  ie-dub01a-ra4-ae31-0.aorta.net [84.116.238.42]
  7    47 ms    44 ms    41 ms  213.46.165.54
  8     8 ms     9 ms     8 ms  209.85.252.196
  9    24 ms    24 ms    25 ms  66.249.95.20
 10    31 ms    28 ms    26 ms  216.239.40.217
 11    30 ms    29 ms    30 ms  209.85.251.179
 12    56 ms    63 ms    72 ms  216.239.57.183
 13    28 ms    29 ms    27 ms  209.85.242.191
 14    31 ms    28 ms    28 ms  fra02s20-in-f24.1e100.net [173.194.113.56]

Traceroute to google.ie with SNMP change:

1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.178.254
  2    10 ms     8 ms     9 ms  188-141-41-1.dynamic.upc.ie [188.141.41.1]
  3     8 ms     8 ms     7 ms  188-141-41-1.dynamic.upc.ie [188.141.41.1]
  4     7 ms     6 ms     8 ms  109.255.255.254
  5     6 ms     7 ms     8 ms  ie-dub01a-ra4-ae31-0.aorta.net [84.116.238.42]
  6     7 ms     6 ms     7 ms  213.46.165.54
  7     9 ms     8 ms     8 ms  209.85.252.196
  8    24 ms    24 ms    25 ms  66.249.95.20
  9    27 ms    27 ms    27 ms  216.239.40.217
 10    33 ms    33 ms    29 ms  209.85.251.179
 11    28 ms    29 ms    28 ms  216.239.57.183
 12    28 ms    27 ms    27 ms  209.85.242.191
 13    29 ms    28 ms    30 ms  fra02s20-in-f24.1e100.net [173.194.113.56]

As you can see, 192.168.0.1 is still active. It looks more like a WAN passthrough than a bridge. The pings are all over the place too, I wonder if this is related? Again, SNMP only!

ThisRegard · 04-11-2015 10:42pm

Cheers Karsini, I was getting worried for you when you disappeared for a half hour!

El Inho · 10-11-2015 1:50am

Anyone ever have one of these just die? Wifi cutting in and out all evening this died completely. No lights won't restart.

MrTrebus · 13-11-2015 6:14pm

Lads
what version s/w is on your technicolour boxes that is allowing you to set the bridge mode ?
mine is on STD6.02.11 but I CANNOT get the bridge mode to work,
I get an error message everytime that says......%failed to set value to snmp variable,timeout

head now seriously done in !!!

13-11-2015 6:47pm

MrTrebus wrote: »

Lads
what version s/w is on your technicolour boxes that is allowing you to set the bridge mode ?
mine is on STD6.02.11 but I CANNOT get the bridge mode to work,
I get an error message everytime that says......%failed to set value to snmp variable,timeout

head now seriously done in !!!

Do you have the RF cable disconnected? To be honest I've heard no successful reports of a bridge on 06.02.11. Still on 06.01.27 here.

MrTrebus · 13-11-2015 7:17pm

Karsini wrote: »

Do you have the RF cable disconnected? To be honest I've heard no successful reports of a bridge on 06.02.11. Still on 06.01.27 here.

was that the version they rolled back too ?
Cable is deffo removed. have run the steps over and over again but always the same result

13-11-2015 8:06pm

MrTrebus wrote: »

was that the version they rolled back too ?
Cable is deffo removed. have run the steps over and over again but always the same result

The firmware version didn't change when they disabled bridge mode. It was a change in the DOCSIS config file. A small number of users seem to have 06.02.11 but I've never seen it myself and don't know why. But if it can't be bridged, that's very bad news if they ever do push this version out to everyone.

MrTrebus · 14-11-2015 12:18pm

I guess another PM to the beleagered vm reps on monday is in order so

dsagra · 14-11-2015 1:01pm

MrTrebus wrote: »

Lads
what version s/w is on your technicolour boxes that is allowing you to set the bridge mode ?
mine is on STD6.02.11 but I CANNOT get the bridge mode to work,
I get an error message everytime that says......%failed to set value to snmp variable,timeout

head now seriously done in !!!

Same timeout error message here: have a TC2700 with STD6.02.11 with either RF cable connected or not.

wiz569 · 14-11-2015 2:55pm

Have you disabled the firewalls on both your pc and the TC7200?

dsagra · 14-11-2015 3:04pm

wiz569 wrote: »

Have you disabled the firewalls on both your pc and the TC7200?

Yes, followed all the steps here
www_boards_ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=96909013&postcount=507

dsagra · 14-11-2015 3:37pm

A nmap scan reports the SNMP port as closed.

nmap -sU -p161 192.168.0.1
Starting Nmap 6.47 ( nmap_org ) at 2015-11-14 15:32 CET
Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.1
Host is up (0.0015s latency).
PORT STATE SERVICE
161/udp closed snmp

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.57 seconds

14-11-2015 4:25pm

Does 192.168.100.1 work instead? I know it did on mine in router mode.

dsagra · 14-11-2015 4:55pm

No, 192.168.100.1 is not working, too, maybe it is a 06.02.11 issue as previously pointed

MrTrebus · 15-11-2015 3:55pm

PM sent to the powers that be !
Am also expecting a call from tech support tomorrow so I'll bring it up then too !
Hopefully its something simple that can be sorted quickly

dibs101 · 11-01-2016 4:11pm

Hi all, can anyone recommend a powerline adapter to go with technicolor tc7200 for converting wireless to LAN in adjacent room?

There is so many out there to choose from but I would like to hear which one other people used.

All help greatly appreciated.

Plascebo · 11-01-2016 4:24pm

dibs101 wrote: »

Hi all, can anyone recommend a powerline adapter to go with technicolor tc7200 for converting wireless to LAN in adjacent room?

There is so many out there to choose from but I would like to hear which one other people used.

All help greatly appreciated.

Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but bought these yesterday to work with the tc7200. Now have wifi in the attic

http://www.currys.ie/Product/tplink-tlwpa4226kit-wifi-powerline-adapter-kit-twin-pack/326850/408.0

UPC modem/router Technicolor TC7200

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