[X4U] Question that might pertain to quite a few MAC users

[Simon Forster]

On 6 Jun 2008, at 03:53, Ed Gould wrote:

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> On Jun 5, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Daly Jessup wrote:
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>> How do you do THAT?
>>
>>> Assuming you haven't changed things too much, look at the info  
>>> supplied by your ISP along with the cable modem when you first got  
>>> it. It should give you log-in details.
>>
>> I don't know. I got a cable modem about 12 or 13 years ago. They  
>> have replaced it twice since then, and the current one is also our  
>> phone receiver thingie. Anyway, they have never given us any  
>> documentation since the original install, and maybe not even then.  
>> I know how to access Linksys routers, but that's all I know. I  
>> don't think I have ever even thought of accessing a cable modem and  
>> I meant it, what do you use? A browser? Something else?

First go round would be a browser directed at the internal IP of your  
router (which you can dig out from network preferences). You can give  
that a go and see where you get to. After that, I'm not too sure what  
to suggest wrt the cable modem as it'd involve looking around and  
trying a few things depending on what turns up.

So if you can't get in through the browser, let's write that off as a  
process.

After that we're back full circle to see what info you can dig out of  
the Airport Extreme. I've got an Airport Express here which seems to  
offer some logging capabilities - but quite how extensive they are and  
how I take full advantage, I know not. I'm guessing I'd need to use  
SNMP to get log details and then analyse that. I don't have the time  
to look into that.

Maybe someone else can step in?

Simon