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Cheap MOCA solution: my experience MI424WR rev E Discussion in 'TiVo Mini' started by jbarm, Sep 18, 2014. Seemingly corroborated by this other product page on Actiontec for the 'MI424WR (GigE for Verizon FiOS)', with the wireless speed still limited to 130. New Actiontec MI424WR rev I firmware - Frontier Communications| DSLReports. The Wireless Broadband Router MI424WR increases service speeds up to 1 Gbps wired and 300 Mbps wireless. Click above for more details. Wireless Broadband Router MI424WR Rev I. And intrusion detection to keep unwanted visitors from accessing the user’s network.The Actiontec MI424WR Router also offers user-defined site blocking by URL.
Every site that I've looked for info on customizing a LAN connected to FiOS has offered variations of this:
- configure the ActionTec as a WAN bridge.
- buy a different router and customize that.
- connect them together.
Why don't people hack directly on the ActionTec? It's running OpenRG (linux) with BusyBox and supports local telnet. I find it hard to believe that no one has been able to get around the security controls.
Note: technically, DD-WRT has made a ROM to reflash the router, but it loses its FiOS capabilities, which completely defeats the purpose for me.
Update: attempting to put non-ASCII characters in the SSID results in:
Update 2: Information about MI424WR command structures
You can read and write configuration values using
conf print
and conf set
commands.However, even when I try to use TELNET BINARY mode on my client, the router appears to be running in 7-bit ASCII mode, which rejects the high-bit characters. So now I need to figure out if it is possible to connect in 8-bit mode, or to assign arbitrary byte strings using some ASCII encoding.
Update 3: Getting closer
Due to space limitations (and presumably a desire to lock down the router) the selection of installed software is very limited. In particular, it has no file editors or find/replace utilities, so making changes directly on the router is difficult.
The only file loading option is TFTP. By running a TFTP server on your PC and connecting to it from the router shell, you can download files, edit them, and upload the changes into place.
Update 4:
Instead of wpa-supplicant.conf (as suggested in the answer), the MI424-WR uses Hostapd, with conf files stored in /etc/hostapd/
However, /etc/hostapd/wpa-ath0.conf is overwritten upon reboot; the settings are stored somewhere else (probably a non-text encoded binary) and merely loaded into hostapd.
The admin web service loads static web pages from /home/httpd/html, but most of the pages are dynamic, and they do not appear anywhere in the file listing.
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Knowing that some routers do not support non-ascii SSID names,I remark that Linux software usually supports UTF-8 rather than Unicode.To be using Unicode, I assume therefore that your computer has Windows.
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You should be able to hack into the router, butspeak to your ISP about getting the firmware upgraded before hacking.
You should be able to use telnet to login into the router as a Linux console.Without knowing your exact router model,here are still a couple of pointers which might work :
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Once you are logged-in to the router's Linux console, you can changethe SSID as described in the articleHow to Configure Wireless on Any Linux Desktop, section 'Command Line'.
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To type non-ascii characters, most Linux distributionsuse Ctrl + Shift + u followed by the UTF-8 code in hex. You only need to hold down Ctrl and Shift while typing the code.
You can find out the hex encoding of your characters in this table :
UTF-8 encoding table and Unicode characters.
UTF-8 encoding table and Unicode characters.
Before hacking, I suggest that you take backups of the router, as well as studyingits mechanism for Factory Reset, just in case.
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Short answer - you shouldn't. Just put in to WAN bridge mode, get tweak-able router like Ubiquiti or and any sporting DD-WRT and enjoy network tweaking. Think of your ActionTec device as 'cable modem'.
Edit:As to why - perhaps this page can provide some wisdom:http://jmikola.net/blog/fios-actiontec/(Security concerns about Verizon's ability to remotely access local router settings, including admin password)
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