New Ambit Firmware available
 

"Bloke in the Pub" says ;)
New firmware is available for the Ambit modems, reset your modem, after it syncs it should reset itself again, when it stabilises go into the diagnostics and see if you have an NTL logo, if so your firmware has been upgraded and the modem is ready for 10Mbs (probably).

The End (of 3Mbs) is Nigh. :redcard:

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Mine says NTL at the top now :)

Also a nice big warning at the bottom I'd not noticed before...

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

You've got it then.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Do you know whats changed behind the scenes? Or is that a secret?

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

I wonder if cloned modems can now be traced to source a little bit easier now?????? :Yikes:

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Shame they didn't get the logo the right size at first shot:

http://192.168.100.1/Logo.gif

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

bloke in the pub - what a legend :)

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

thank you very much, modem updated. I think you should leave the 3mb, and do 2mb first....:rolleyes:

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

If you are doing nothing wrong and havent altered anything on the moedem then there is nothing to worry about. The firmware will be altered from time to time. I have the new firmware and happy to have this update.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

It looks as if they've fixed that bug that stopped you from logging into the modem after it had been online for a while, it's still letting me login after 4 hours of uptime. Not a huge bug, but nice that it's fixed :)

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

By the way this was sod all to do with 10Mbit, just to pee on the bloke in the pub's bonfire a bit ;)

Firmware was a compatibility, security and prettyfication patch.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

It certainly looks that way.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

so Ig what kinda security issues have been resolved in this new update then...that is if your still "in the know"

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

How do you go into the diagnosics?

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

click the link

http://192.168.100.1/

user = root

pass = root

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Page cannot be displayed??

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Make sure no proxies are set in your internet options.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Updated fine on this end.

Would still like a list of bug & security fixes from anyone with the info :)

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Which Ambit have you got I had one that would never show the page but the 125 does the 200 wouldn't in the ex cable and wireless areas.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

the 125 :erm: never heard of one of those...

afaik the config page should be available on the 100, 120, 200 and 250 modems in all areas.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

try the link with the traily slash removed

http://192.168.100.1

then root, root - or admin, admin should work, for username and password ???

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Confirmed, works through the router now as well, nice.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

great work NTL you've stopped snmp access, i'll just have to go over the cap now.

tards.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

pretty much dismissed by this posting and as i have mentioned here
this seems to have been about combating fraud not replacing images or adding words to internal screens.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Don't think I need to comment all the cloning monkeys whining and moaning pretty much answer that one :D

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

this is all i have done since i was told what it did.

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

I know but am not telling :p:

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

One security-related change is that SNMP access to the cable modem is no longer permitted. So, for instance, DocsDiag will no longer work.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

In June I tried docsdiag and it was not working then. See

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...light=DocsDiag

I was told the that snmp had been disabled at ubr level. Was it working at the modem level and not at the ubr? I do not get it :)

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

What happens if you do not reset your modem?

There being no emails from NTL regarding this, also going by our membership figures, the vast majority of NTL customers most probably have not seen this thread. So what happens to them?

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Their modem reboots itself. It gets the new firmware. They don't see any difference.

From what I can gather from other threads in various places this update plugs a fairly large security hole in the modem software which should hopefully make things a bit more difficult for the people who use the service without paying.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Amen

SNMP was a much more accurate way of monitoring rather than a program such as DUMeter on all pcs....

Also considering the complexity (I.E. Hardware mods) of what their doing anyway - I think they are gonna have the willpower to bypass the update in which workarounds are already floating around....

Its like Tom & Jerry, the freeloading morons who spoil it for the others are always gonna try and find away not to pay whereas the provider will always try to stop em.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Or, say, monitoring the WAN port on your router (which if you have >1 PC you must have one of, surely?).

Cat and mouse as you say. How about (and this isn't necessarily going to happen - if I had any say about it I wouldn't mention it on here) denying access to all modems not proven to be on the new firmware version?

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Strange that you say that BBKing but I have been running PRTG for over a year with my modem. Since the new firmware this program cannot monitor the modem.

Seems very strange that just as NTL start to send out letters to people over using their connections that NTL stop us monitoring our useage.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Been using this for the last month now and it works fine . www.ipcop.org/

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

I wonder if all the ppl who have been pinged for exceeding the cap have the new firmware? I doubt that NTL would use the local modem to monitor usage but this firmware is coincidental to usage letters.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Well my modem has not been updated, and i've no intention of turning it off to reset it. (everythings working just dandy,and I dont want to upset it) FWIW, my average monthly bandwidth usage comes to about one third of the cap.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

isn't ipcop a firewall for linux?? :erm:

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Actually your wrong mate - I dont use a router... One Windows system acts as the wireless gateway for the Xbox, 2 Laptops and other 2 systems.

But stopping us monitoring our usage via SNMP is ridiculous

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Its a stand alone router as well, look at the site and the screen shots.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Well, that contradicts your original statement that you'd have to use dumeter on every machine. Just use it on the gateway and there's your usage.

We'll do it then :)

It is coincidental, AFAIK (don't assume that ntl always knows 100% what it's doing!). And we don't use the modem to monitor usage, that would be rather hard.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

The cable modem god has spoken.:D

For the record I understand this firmware update was for security reasons, and if SNMP has been restricted then it must have a use that ntl do not approve of.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

It would still count all the data being sent locally between the PCs and Xboxs

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Ok it was for security reasons I have been asking for years now for some online way to monitor what you are downloading and I purchased PRTG as it worked with my modem.

Lets hope NTL allow customers access to monitor their internet usage now supplied by them and as upto date as PRTG was for me.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Many programs can distinguish between local and internet traffic, netlimiter being one.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

not dumeter though :p:

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

OK, Mr. I-just-want-to-be-awkward, dumeter just sucks though.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

I wondered whether NTL distunuishes between a bad P2P downloader and a not so bad Newsgroup downloader? Or perhaps those who try to help the network by utilising nightime hours rather than during the day? Or is it a case of everyone over 120GB regardless?

Interesting as if its just a case of GB's and not habit/type of data source then i'm happy to dl during the day instead! easier for me!

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

i doubt it and thats what annoys me the most, whats better someone who downloads at night and leaves the network free evenings and daytime, or someone that throttles their P2P but leaves pc on downloading and upload 24/7!!

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

problems I had are.

dumeter registers lan traffic, so when I posted my usage recently that did include my lan traffic.

netlimiter for me is unreliable on readings, when I click the stats page nothing shows up and just doesnt work, so I just use netlimiter for shaping my traffic.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

If it can't give you per-interface statistics it blows goats and we need a better solution.

PRTG isn't just limited to cable modems, of course, anything that has an SNMP agent that can give you per-interface statistics is pollable - hence using it on routers (or Linux gateway boxes, or even Windows boxes, with an enabled SNMP agent).

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Actually you are right, you can choose which interface it monitors. So it should be able to only monitor internet traffic, in that scenario.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

can't NTL limit what can be accessed from SNMP, could they just allow the sysuptime and usb/eth trafic mibs from the user side if they wanted to or would that still be a security risk?

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Oh really? Well considering DUMeter can only meter ALL connections or 1 - I cant monitor my mobile acess quota then which is a bit more important due to the fact i get charged through the teeth.

Considering that Netlimiter 2 is in alpha and Netlimiter 1 was the same when I got DUMeter I was quite pleased with it at the time... (Mobile phones dont support SNMP as far as I know)

Maybe when it stops BSODING computers and so ill considering buying it

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

o_O

Somehow I don't believe you are downloading gigabytes or anywhere near on a mobile.

Re: New Ambit Firmware available
 

Who said I was downloading Gigabytes? thats just flaming mate

Considering you get charged PER MEGABYTE on a mobile phone - it means that EVERY BYTE COUNTS otherwise you end up with a stupidly large phone bill. Im not going to major lengths to explain why I use a cell phones GPRS access.