Hi folks,
Long time lurker, first time poster... some great topics and plenty of educational reading here so kudos to all
I've been using DSLstats v5.4 for some time now with a Zyxel VMG8324-B10A (an unbranded F1000 from Irish ISP eircom). It works well and I've been uploading stats to the MDWS website
A poster here (dmcdonnell), who helped us unbrand the Zyxel above, has also recently discovered a hack for enabling telnet access on the Huawei HG658c, which is the current ADSL/VDSL2 gateway issued by Vodafone, o2 and Imagine in Ireland. Enabling telnet involves unbranding the device using an alternative firmware image from the recently acquired o2 and then uploading a modified config file. Dermot can probably explain it better but I followed his advice, it's very easy and I now have telnet and shell access available
So, with that, I decided to try collecting stats from the gateway using DSLstats. The HG658c is not listed in the software as I believe it may be unique to Irish ISP's and obviously telnet is blocked by default but I played around selecting different models and settings and I managed to get it working
I have my login settings as follows:
- Modem/router model: Huawei HG658b
- Modem/router is HG622 type: ticked
- Telnet login name: !!Huawei
- Telnet password: @HuaweiHgw
- Telnet port: 23
- Requires command to enter shell: ticked
- Shell command: sh
- CLI command prefix: xdslcmd
As above, these settings are working in both v5.4 and pre-release v5.4.3. All the stats seem to be gathering as expected. If I restart the software, there can be some trouble getting it to login and begin recording again but once it starts recording, it seems to stay recording without issue
Anyways, might it be possible to have the Huawei HG658c added to the list of supported models in DSLstats? While my settings listed above seem to work OK, I'd be happier knowing I was using officially supported settings from the software itself. If not, might there be more suitable parameters to use than those I have listed above?
Many thanks,
C