Hi all,
has anybody had any experience with unlocking / hacking the new Vodafone Connect router?
I can be picked up for < £10 at eBay / Amazon at the moment, and I was hoping it might make a nice access point.
Sadly, no luck. It's completely locked down it seems, no telnet, no ssh. FTP is open, but anonymous login just shows an empty directory.
Won't connect on LAN port to the rest of the network, nor fetch an IP via the WAN port.
I tried connecting to the J501 port (on the right), no luck, and also wired up the J1801 port (at the top), no luck there either (using the same serial adapter I successfully used for the OpenReach Huawei modem).
It is a 'Advanced Digital Broadcast' (ADB), model ADBA-GU14001A.
The print on the inside reads 'VOX2-5/VODAFONE/ADB REV:1.06'
I can see a Broadcom BCM53124SKMMLG TE1509 P30 459517 3B W.
The CPU is a Broadcom BCM63168VKFEBG TN1503 P40 448471 N3A.
I also see a Winbond W631GG6KB-15 6431AT700012 518HUA TWN (presumably the BIOS).
On the back, I see a Spansion S34ML02G200TF100 503BB568 A
There's also some additional lettering printed: YA-4A! 94V-0 E114139 1510
It features 3 5GHz and 2 2.4GHz aerials. Unfortunately, the RF shield is soldered on, haven't been able to get underneath yet.
The saved down config file is of little use, firstly it only has the options you see in the GUI (it's plain xml), and secondly it has a hash, which seems invalidated by any change.
Seems to be made by Huawei.
Help appreciated.
Thanks,
TTT