Category Archives: hardware

EIR F3000 configure for Bridge Mode

Posted on February 5, 2020 by cottse

Eir have released the F3000 (Sagemcom eir Fibre box 1A 1.0) modem into the wild so here’s how I flipped it into Bridge mode. It was simpler than previous models. Login to the admin console of the modem. click on … Continue reading →

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Access WLAN profiles form DOS / Command prompt

Posted on October 5, 2016 by cottse

NETSH is a great tool to trouble shoot client wireless connectivity issues from a dos prompt, here are my examples. netsh wlan show profiles This will list all locally stored SSID’s. netsh wlan delete profile name=SSID name This will remove … Continue reading →

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EIR F2000 configure for Bridge Mode

Posted on January 27, 2016 by cottse

For logic best know to themselves EIR will not throw a modem into Bridge mode, when upgrading a users site to their e-Fibre package. This is how I do it. Login to the EIR modem http://192.168.1.254 password located on sticker … Continue reading →

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Eircom F1000 set to bridge mode

Posted on March 27, 2015 by cottse

eircom F1000 (VMG8324) – Bridge Mode *NOTE – Bridge Mode is not supported by eircom. In the instance where a customer has a connectivity issue they will be asked by a support CSR to change the router back to routing … Continue reading →

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Find Dell Service Tag & Express Service Code

Posted on March 7, 2013 by cottse

From a command prompt on the target system run this command wmic csproduct get vendor,name,identifyingnumber Now visit http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/ie/en/19/Expressservice OR http://www.powerdog.com/dellconv.cgi To retrieve you Express Service Code.

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