Alcatel Thompson SpeedTouch 585

CyTA has recently (October 2006) began distributing a new modem/router device, the Alcatel Thompson SpeedTouch 585, that succeeds the older and never supported ECI B-FOCuS Wireless 352+ device. After the unsuccessful era of the Israeli devices, CyTA finally returns to the older and more trustworthy brand, Alcatel. Fortunately Alcatel is a well known brand with at least better support for its products compared to ECI, given that firmware updates float all over the web, and that counts for something. It seems that CyTA is actively trying to subcontract the most-difficult-to-configure devices and does not even give the chance or technical knowledge to customers to configure the device for their own needs. It comes preconfigured to your residence or office and I am still wondering if CyTA technicians are capable or have the technical knowhow of configuring the device, or any other device of such matter. In any case this time CyTA actually bothered to setup passwords for accessing the router configuration interface to ensure that customers cannot mess with it (this pisses me so much), but I guess it is for the best for the not-so-technologically-literate-users-who-like-to-mess-up-every-device-that-floats-around. But the struggle goes on

ALCATEL THOMPSON SPEEDTOUCH 585 ROUTER CONFIGURATION MANUAL

(compiled by: Ioannis Epaminonda on 29 November 2006, last updated on: 14/11/2007 by Chris)

INTRODUCTION
As I do not have access to such a device all the information maintained on this manual are bits and pieces gathered here by other members of this blog, mainly Chris. Stay tuned, for more updates on the subject.

DEVICE SPECIFICATIONS DIRECT LINK

CONFIGURE ROUTER LAN CONNECTION OPTIONAL ENABLE UPnP OPTIONAL ENABLE ROUTER WIRELESS ACCESS POINT SAVE ROUTER CONFIGURATION
If you do not use the GUI Interface (that means the browser) to make changes, then to save them just issue a saveall command from the telnet session, that should do it! Otherwise they are autosaved!

SYSTEM CONNECTIVITY CHECK ACCESS INTERNET HARDWARE RESET FIRMWARE UPGRADE (for Advanced Users Only)
BEFORE YOU START DO THIS: It is always recommended to run the SpeedTouch firmware upgrade wizards with a statically set IP address on your PC with the following: IP: 10.0.0.1, Subnet: 255.0.0.0, Default Gateway: 10.0.0.138. ALSO It is A MUST to have all security programmes (firewalls, antivirus) turned completely off. ESPECIALLY ANY NORTON CRAP! AND DO NOT TURN OFF OR RESET THE DEVICE UNLESS YOU FINISH!! Now Download the latest firmware *CURRENT = v7.4.1.7*HERE. Download the Upgrade Wizard HERE. Extract the Upgrade Wizard into a folder along with the image file bli you downloaded first.
1. Begin with the unit powered off via the power switch at the back depressed. 2. Get a pin or a pen with a long enough nose to reach the reset button and hold it in. 3. Continue holding your pin or... on the reset button and do not release it. Power the unit on by pressing the power button into the "on" state never releasing the reset. 4. Hold the reset button in for around 15 seconds. The power and Ethernet light should flash between red and green. 5. Run the SpeedTouch firmware upgrade wizard, click NEXT, then Have Disk and Make sure you have selected ALL FILES so that you can select the *.bli you downloaded first (select it and click next). You only have around 1min to start the wizard before the speedtouch will revert to the normal boot up, make sure ur quick or you will have to repeat!

Cyta Passwords for SpeedTouch if anyone got trouble. user = cytadsl (if it doesnt work try cytacytadsl) pass = cytaspeed