[new] use for SB8200 2nd eth/en port
Sharing the results of 4 Astound “technician” visits w/r/t loss of 75% download speed , a broken Hitron modem, and a working useless Hitron replacement. Note that the Crackerjack Box Hitron modems rented from Astound come with a fixed subnet in their “default” ipAddress which is the equivalent to getting a ‘locked’ cell phone. It locks you into that subnet if you add the modem first, but ruins your LAN speeds and address-sifting if you add the modem to an already-existing LAN which uses a different subnet. Of course, deploying no ‘forward’-compatibility, the firmware web page does not allow the customer/admin to modify that ipAddress. That and any other “admin” functionality” does not even exist on their page. It’s called ‘authoritarian’, ant-user, and chiefly, “lame”. Naturally, with so many “default” user/pwd pairs floating around, none worked, esp. because there was no connection made. That presents issues for those avoiding the security and slow-down associated with ALL WoiFi/wirel