So i ordered att uverse DSL2 through toast.net to get away from data caps. The install was today. The tech came to the house and opened the att box up by the curb, and stated do i really want high speed internet as there werent many "pairs" of copper that were good left, and he didnt want to spend hours fixing it if i was just going to cancel the install. WTF??. i said i did want it and he continued working. Well 5 o clock rolls around and I still no working internet. Guy is at the front of the neighborhood working on the main box out there. I stopped by and asked if he was done inside the house. He said he did all he can do and would be working on the lines out here. Well here it is at 7 pm and my modem is still flashing red. ATT installer said he has my number and he will give me a call and give me an update on the installation status. I could tell the guy really didnt want to install the line.
Its 7pm now and no call and the guy is gone. Ive got no connection and no idea what the next step is.
Why is att continuing to milk copper when it clearly has so many issues? Im tempted to just cancel and pay comcast an extra $50 to get uncapped internet bringing my total for 25/2 mbps at $103 with comcast because it doesnt look like att can compete.
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Toast.net att uverse installation
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Fiber gateway called "DSLDEVICE"?
Just got my fiber installed and noticed the gateway is called DSLDEVICE. Is that because they use the same device for DSL?
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[AT&T Fiber] Short loss of connection on Fiber 1000 with pfSense bypass
I've had Fiber 1000 in Chicago for just about a year now and overall the service has been excellent - low latency and speed tests are always 940/940 to a variety of test servers in the area. Currently I'm running directly from the ONT to my router (an old Dell PC with an Intel Pro/1000 2-port NIC) using the pfatt bypass code.
I work remotely and during one meeting with a customer, my Zoom meeting lost connectivity and then reconnected several seconds later. This was definitely a blip in connectivity as I couldn't access any other sites during that brief moment. The pfSense logs contained an entry for that exact time regarding "alarm latency" but then a "clear latency" shortly after.
Based on the logs, this seems to have happened several other times in recent months but I haven't noticed until yesterday.
I ran a speedtest on my computer, and everything seemed to test fine, but another blip happened and the connection seemed to go down and come back up shortly after.
Any ideas on what the culprit could be? I've attached the logs if that is of any help. The service is great, but I'd like to figure this out as I rely on it for my job. Thanks in advance.
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Something going on in the neighborhood!
Well, lately I've seen rolled-up something (coax, fiber, ??) hanging on the poles on our street. Then, 2 days ago they dug a hole on
the corner of our neighbor's property and there are a bunch of black cables/fibers going into a junction box. These are the 4" round
ones junction posts, not the 3" square ones that used to be used for buried copper lines.
Today, a guy knocked on our door and said he'd be digging in our yard to install fiber for AT&T. Well, he left after a while with no digging being done, but maybe he was just sizing up the job.
We have had Charter/Spectrum for almost 20 years, since DSL stopped working due to bad copper plant and we were forced to go to cable as the only other option. I'm looking forward to having two options for internet.
Jon
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[AT&T Fiber] Is it possible to bypass BGW-210 gateway while having Uverse TV
I have Fiber 1000 and Uverse TV 300. I've tried out the BGW210 gateway that AT&T installed for the past few months and it's been absolutely terrible. It's the most unreliable slow router I've ever used. Streaming video and even simple webpages will hang while loading for like a minute. Many fail to load at all. Makes me want to go back to Spectrum 940/35. Anyway I have a Unifi USG that I used with my Spectrum service...that was a rock solid setup. Can I bypass the dumpster fire BGW210 with the USG while keeping the Uverse TV?
Thanks for any advice
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Thinking about switching to fiber - can i use my own router?
Hi all
I am currently using Spectrum as my provider. At&T recently installed Fiber in our neighborhood and has been marketing it door-to-door. I am inclined towards making the switch.
Since I want to use the router I currently have - a Netgear AC1450 with dd-wrt firmware - to serve as the cnetral hub of my home network and provide VPN services to every device on it, I have been looking into the cheapest way possible to do this if I switch to Fiber.
I have read through a lot of threads here and I am super confused. I also don't want to spend a lot of money on new equipment - such as an USG and pfsense routers if I can get similar functionality using my existing router.
If not, it would be great if someone more experienced than me could help me figure out a cost-effective way to "completely disable" the AT&T gateway and just use my own equipment to manage my home network is.
Thanks.
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[AT&T Fiber] 5 day outage caused by AT&T tech.
So, I had an interesting weekend....caused by an incompetent, dare I say right out asshole AT&T technician.
My neighbor and I share the same pole in the back yard. He is starting to work from home a lot more, and wanted more bandwidth on the upstream part (he takes over PC's for support for a hospital, and that works a lot better with good upstream) so I recommended fiber to him, as he was still on Spectrum cable.
On Friday was his install. I was at work, but my wife was at home.... all over sudden the internet stopped working at my house, and as it does (my wife was watching Netflix) she noticed that an AT&T tech was just coming down the pole having connected the cable for my neighbor. She calls me, and I come home from work to see if I can fix it. The story gets told, I see the AT&T van in front of the neighbor, and I quickly decide that one and one is two, and the fact he was on the pole the second my internet came down.... told me everything I needed to know.
So I go over to my neighbor, and find the tech in his home under a desk installing the ONT. My neighbor and me go over and inquire in a friendly manner whether he may have accidentally knocked me offline, and if he could go check the pole before he leaves. The technician, named "Cary" (watch out for him if you are in OC, CA) immediately jumped on the defense: "I didn't touch anything, I didn't do anything, it isn't my fault". After a little more conversation back and forth he asks me to check my ONT and see if there are any warning lights. Mine was installed outside in a grey box. I open it up, and sure enough: A red FAIL light, indicating no light is coming to my ONT.
Back to the neighbor and I show him the picture. He still claims that it isn't anything he could have possibly done, but he promises to go take a look after his install is done. I wait about 45 minutes and no technician.... so I peek through the window, and yup! NO AT&T van. He bailed. It's Friday afternoon, he wanted his beer, he couldn't wait to get out of there. After speaking to the neighbor, he noticed the same thing.... after I had shown up to inform him about my outage, Cary's attitude changed, he started rushing the job, getting things done quickly, and then told him he would be going to his van and checking if everything was OK..... and he bailed.
So, time to call AT&T. After getting the standard runaround of rebooting my gateway and checking the lights on equipment inside my home.... I finally manage to convince him to get me a supervisor. She apologizes, but also says there is no way to get anyone out there today and the first available appointment is on Tuesday 2/4. Unless someone cancels, there is nothing she could do.
As I have a phone with unlimited data from my work, I resort to what it is (even after speaking to a second supervisor) and await my turn. I turn the phone into a hot spot, I get by for the weekend with a USB wifi dongle in my PC, and actually get some other things done. Picard episode 2 would have to wait.... :( (Which I watched last night!)
In the mean time, my neighbor's internet goes down. Turns out this Cary did a pretty sloppy install, and botched the connector on his ONT, causing his fiber to fail. Ironically, he gets an appointment for Monday morning, a day after I called he gets an appointment a day before. I am assuming this has something to do with being a new customer.... In any case, come Monday morning.... No tech. Monday afternoon.... no tech. Finally a tech shows up at his house, hours late, sees what the problem is, and replaces the entire ONT. He's back up and running. My neighbor told me about my issue, but by now.... it was considered different, and since I had a ticket in he had to let the tech come on Tuesday and fix it.
Tuesday morning. In comes Gregory from AT&T. Gregory, for the record, was a cool dude. It was cold, windy here in Socal, but that didn't phase him. We got along fine, I offered him some hot coffee (which he politely refused as he wasn't a coffee drinker) and he goes to work. Within minutes of troubleshooting and getting up on the pole he notices my cable got BENT pretty badly, and that was likely the cause.... He confirms that it has to be a person on the pole that did this, and he thinks either fibers inside broke or got bent badly enough for light to not come through properly. As fibers aren't easily repaired, he replaced the entire line from the pole all the way to my ONT. Finally I was back online and I could shut down my mobile phone access point.
After Gregory was done, his supervisor showed up. He may have connected some dots, and saw some new install and outage, and figured he would come check and see. I told him the story about the tech at my neighbor, and he would also go to my neighbor's house - which he did. I don't know what happens next, but Cary does not deserve to work for AT&T, and AT&T should not want these kinds of technicians doing installs.
Lessons learned:
Negative:
1) Never ever deal with a tech called Cary in Orange County. I will not put his last name on here, so do not ask me. Both my neighbor and me are filing complaints.
2) An outage CAUSED by an AT&T tech is no reason to get preferential treatment on scheduling a tech to come out and fix it.
Positive:
1) Gregory was a good guy and knew what he was doing. He was cold, in a hoodie, but nothing less than courteous and professional.
2) My eap_proxy bypass on my Edgerouter picked up internet the minute the new fiber was connected. No reboots, no nothing needed.
3) I've got a brand new fiber line! :D
4) I guess another positive is that I got 5 days of credit on my bill, but that should be expected.
It's been well over 3 years of being stable and online without a single problem, and it certainly seems that the last 20-ish hours that same stability is back. Speedtests, latency tests all come back fast and clean. So, the only outage I have ever had (besides a power outage or two in the neighborhood) was caused BY AT&T themselves.... by botching my line and a new install at the neighbor. Neighbor came over last night and told us he had good internet, and he felt guilty all weekend because it was "his" tech that was being the asshole.
Case closed. And no, adam1991.... Toast.net wouldn't be able to prevent this, they don't send out their own techs and rely on the AT&T ones, the incompetent assholes included. :D
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New software version for Pace 5268AC?
I noticed that my 5268AC rebooted last night and it's showing a software version of 1.2.1.531810-att. Is this a new version?
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Is there any way to bypass the bgw210-700 anymore?
I'm looking to bypass the at&t rg (bgw210) completely which I know has been done before by extracting the rsa private key corresponding to the client certificate used in 802.1x authentication. I have been working on this for some time now.
When I first started, I looked in the firmware files but soon found out more about how it authenticates and that the private key is not in the firmware but comes pre-installed on every rg. I investigated the authentication packets to extract the root ca, intermediate ca, and client certificate, and I would assume that the authentication server would verify that the client certificate is signed by a trusted ca. I am going to test anyway but I doubt it would trust my certs.
So next, seeing that at&t seems to have secured all communications and that a mitm attack wouldn't work, I went to the hardware level. I accessed the uart port (labeled bcm on the pcb) and hooked up my arduino to allow conversion to usb. I was able to see the boot log but any input seemed to do nothing. After some research I found out that it appears there is no way to get to a shell or interrupt the bootloader anymore.
One idea to try to get to the cfe (bootloader) cli was to disable access to the flash. No one seemed to test this out, so I gave it a shot. I decided to apply a high (3.3v) voltage to the chip enable pin to disable any reads/writes. It ended up always giving read errors and halting/restarting. Either it was too early where the cfe bootloader never loaded or too late where cfe already started to initialize stuff/boot. Either way it would not drop to the cli as I was hoping. Maybe I had the timing wrong but I did try disabling the flash at different times.
So, unless there is an exploit, I only see 2 potential options. Either look into the ont to see if there's anything there (which I know at&t does not want you opening) or manually reading the flash chip which would require desoldering, buying some adaptors/hardware for reading, and resoldering which would be difficult and time consuming (not to mention the extra costs). Assuming that there are no other choices, I guess the best option would be to buy a rg off of ebay or whatever and hope it has exploitable firmware (or as a last resort, manually read the flash).
The question I have is if i'm missing any options or if there are any known exploits left. I was also wondering if there is any jtag access on the board and if anyone has any additional info about the ont (like does the 802.1x authentication happen on the ont or does it just forward it to another authentication server?). Any feedback/info is appreciated.
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ATT FTTH slow speeds
I have been trying to solve this issue for 4 months now to no avail. I have ATT 1 Gigbit fiber to my home. The Motorola BGW210-700 modem/router combo they make you use reports 970 down 950 up to the router. But when I plug a 50 ft cat 6e ethernet cord from the router to my computer, the speed drops to 500mbps. I have never once seen above 700. They came and replaced router, but the issue persisted. I have tried switching computers and cords, no positive effect. ATTs only suggestion to me is to buy another router, and bridge their router to that one. I'd rather not shell out another 100 bucks to get my internet working correctly. Is there anyone else having this type of issue?
I had gig fiber at my other apartment through a regional carrier, and consistently hit 920 up/down, so I know my ethernet on my computer can handle the speeds, and I have not changed any windows settings that may affect the speeds. I have turned off all real-time malware and virus scanning, so I don't think it's a software issue. Can anyone tell me what I should try next?
Here is a link to my speed test taken at 1:30AM EST
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/59266302
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[AT&T Fiber] Using Asuswrt-Merlin to bypass RG
Hi guys,
I successfully bypass AT&T's RG using rt-ac68u with extracted certs from both NVG510 and NVG589
No pfSense, or netgraph, or ubiquiti devices, or dumb switch needed.
I only tested with rt-ac68u, but the method should work for all Asuswrt-Merlin based wireless routers (Please let me know if it doesn't).
Basically, the AiProtection in Asuswrt auto tags net traffic with VLAN, so we only need to update wpa_supplicant which works with extracted certs.
More detail here https://github.com/bypassrg/att.
Any comments and suggestions are appreciated.
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What is IPDSL and adsl and adsl2 and vdsl2
I have Heard people talk about IPDSL on the forum. Just was curious what it is. Also what is the difference between adsl and adsl2 and vdsl2.
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So we have fiber conduit but no fiber lol
So I am almost at the end of the street. 2 houses over on my side and across have gigapower.
It said IPDSL for me. I wanted to get the tech out anyways and he was very helpful. He talked to the fiber guys he knew and opened up the green box to show me.
He said so I called a few people and I found out and saw that the street has fiber conduit run but it has nothing in it. It just stops at the end of street for now. He said it has strings and everything to extend it from one home to next. Showing me the orange conduit with string and cap on it.
I just bought the house and found posts about trenching company trenching the yards in 2018 from owner right across from me that still doesn’t have fiber. He was told that it’s for AT&T. They assumed it was for fiber but they have yet to extend the cable and run through the conduit lol.
So is this normal for them to take this long? He told me everything is done the last part is the easiest as they have to just loop it through. Why the heck would AT&T trench the conduits and forget to do the easy part lol
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[AT&T Fiber] Another ATT Gateway Bypass Thread
Hi All,
There is enormous amount of information and I've been reading for a few hours on bypassing the ATT gateway, versus DMZ+, IP Passthrough ect. I have the gigapower and the Pace 5682 gateway. I currently do not have static public IP but am open to paying for it if it helps
I have ordered a Edgerouter 4 that is to be delivered tomorrow. I am an engineer and I do software amongst other things, but I am not a systems or networking engineer. I don't do any CLI with networking equipment, but I do CLI other things so I'm sure I can pick it up quicker than most. My questions are:
1) I am planning to start with the dumb-switch bypass as it sounds very straightforward, however, I am concerned about having all of my outbound traffic reliant upon a cheap $25 switch. Will it drop or mis-manage packets? I have the switch already and a small UPS I plan to use. My priority is mostly in online FPS gaming, in that I'd like to keep latency and packet loss (mis-management) low with an Open NAT.
2) Assuming long-term I'd like to have something better than the dumb-switch approach, I'm seeing options to use a managed switch and swap VLANs, but I've also seen posts about getting certs from a NV gateway and deploying the authentication in some routers. Would I be able to do this with the Edgerouter-4? I couldn't find any hits for this hardware combo and cert spoofing.
3) Any reason to buy a static IP and put the gateway into some sort of passthrough mode. There are some videos on Youtube and such that hint at this being a "true-bridge" but then there are comments that suggest this is not. My gut says going through the gateway in anyway is a loss, but again, I only know enough to be dangerous and can't prove this out on my own.
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[Questions/Help/Advice] Help identifying whose service this might be
Hello all!
I haven't posted on here in ages. I live in a multi-unit townhome on the end. Comcast did some digging recently and they finally installed some hubs behind the homes. The box on the sides of the buildings though has no provider-specific markings. I think whomever installed it "forgot" to close it, so I took a video of the insides.
Any thoughts on what ISP this will be? I know ATT has fiber in surrounding areas(I'm in Lowell, IN), but Comcast trucks were the ones out there digging. I've never seen a box like this before as I've never lived anywhere that had fiber available.
Thanks, all!
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Certs on 5268AC
Does anyone know what flash package the 5268AC uses and what the file size and length is for it where the mfg.dat resides? Are there any other exploits known?
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AT&T HE Routing Issue (IPV6)
I am having issues communicating with IPv6 hosts via Hurricane Electric. Is anyone else experiencing similar behavior?
% traceroute6 bgp.he.net
traceroute6 to bgp.he.net (2001:470:0:1f9::2) from 2600:1700:9b10:3a00:c13:7773:f428:8f46, 64 hops max, 12 byte packets
1 2.005 ms 1.902 ms 3.327 ms
2 2001:506:6000:136:71:156:218:35 7.774 ms 15.816 ms 2.593 ms
3 2001:506:6000:37:69:235:119:19 6.124 ms 5.941 ms 5.831 ms
4 2001:1890:ff:e044:12:83:32:133 14.238 ms
2001:1890:ff:e045:12:83:32:173 8.639 ms
2001:1890:ff:e044:12:83:32:133 12.860 ms
5 *
cgcil403igs.ipv6.att.net 15.666 ms *
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1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 100ge14-2.core1.sjc2.he.net (2001:470:0:eb::2)
2 10 ms 57 ms * att-internet4-as7018.10gigabitethernet9-8.core1.sjc2.he.net (2001:470:0:369::2)
3 * * * ?
4 * * * ?
5 * * * ?
6 * * * ?
7 * * * ?
8 * * * ?
9 * * * ?
10 * * * ?
11 * * * ?
12 * * * ?
13 * * * %
traceroute bgp.he.net
traceroute to bgp.he.net (72.52.94.234), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 10. 2.319 ms 1.492 ms 1.444 ms
2 162. 2.210 ms 2.802 ms 7.343 ms
3 71.151.199.254 (71.151.199.254) 2.941 ms 9.787 ms 3.592 ms
4 * * *
5 12.83.32.169 (12.83.32.169) 10.678 ms
12.83.32.129 (12.83.32.129) 10.406 ms
12.83.32.169 (12.83.32.169) 3.834 ms
6 cgcil403igs.ip.att.net (12.122.133.33) 15.119 ms 14.988 ms 14.010 ms
7 10ge11-3.core1.chi1.he.net (216.66.78.117) 12.904 ms 13.412 ms 17.041 ms
8 100ge5-2.core1.oma1.he.net (184.105.213.2) 21.334 ms 25.683 ms 21.520 ms
9 100ge6-1.core1.den1.he.net (184.105.65.161) 47.605 ms 33.969 ms 32.389 ms
10 e0-36.core2.sjc2.he.net (184.104.192.214) 56.965 ms 57.292 ms 57.908 ms
11 100ge16-1.core1.sjc2.he.net (184.104.192.213) 58.847 ms 60.227 ms 59.720 ms
12 100ge8-2.core3.fmt1.he.net (72.52.92.57) 59.131 ms 61.330 ms 57.601 ms
13 plato.he.net (72.52.94.234) 57.670 ms 57.665 ms 57.636 ms
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[IP-TV] what happened to the national rollout of at&t tv
Heard it was supposed to bed 15 feb 2020 last Dec but not heard anymore about it
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[ADSL2] Disconnects, who to contact?
Hey guys attached are the stats, we're getting quite a few disconnects, but judging by the stats what do you think, is it bad? Who should I contact and what to do? Thanks
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[VDSL] AT&T Tech said this my lines are fine is he right or wrong?
So we had some issues with our line for some odd reason going in and out and when we got a tech out he says our lines are fine, not sure if we should even believe him.... >_>
ps. This a Busniess account
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