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APPENDIX C

Firmware Recovery

The detail instruction in Emergency/Failure Recovery Button

1.Recovery procedures for non-working routers (e.g. after a failed firmware upgrade flash):

Hold the Emergency/Failure Recovery Button on the back of the modem in. Keep this button held in and turn on the modem. Once the lights on the modem have stopped flashing, release the Emergency/Failure Recovery Button. The modem's emergency- reflash web interface will then be accessible via http://192.168.1.254/ where you can upload a firmware image to restore the modem to a functional state. Please note that the modem will only respond via its web interface at this address, and will not respond

to

ping

requests

from

your

PC

or

to

telnet

connections.

2. Recovery

procedures

for

a

lost

web

 

interface

password:

After turning the router on press the Emergency/Failure Recovery Button on the back of the modem, and hold the button in until all lights on the modem flash and it reboots with factory default settings. The login will be reset to admin and the password will be reset to admin, and the modem will be accessible via its default IP address at http://192.168.1.254/

Before powered on the router to enter the recovery process. please configure the IP address of the PC as 192.168.1.1 and process step by step.

1.Power the router off.

2.Hold the " Emergency/Failure Recovery Button”.

3.Power on the router. Then Router's IP will reset to Default (Say 192.168.1.254)

4.Upload the firmware.

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