Any D6400 Owners?

liamcrane · 4 Jul 2015 at 17:03

Hi all,

Just wondered if any of you guys have the D6400? Bought it a couple of weeks ago to replace my 5 years Billion 7800N and so far its been pretty good. I'll be getting my fibre connection on Tuesday with Plusnet but i wasnt sure if i needed to use my old BT Huawei ECI modem with it or not?

Would be nice to be able to see the full line stats as well but doesnt even seem possible on the d6400 for standard adsl from what i have tried

michty_me · 5 Jul 2015 at 03:03

The D6400 will work well on your FTTC connections. Better than some others anyway. You can get full stats by following this guide.

1) Download the unlock tool from here https://github.com/LuKePicci/NetgearTelnetEnable/blob/master/binaries/windows/telnetenable.exe
2) Place file in C:\Windows\System32.
3) Login to netgear router and click advanced and look at the router information block. Take note of the MAC address in there.
4) This point I made a notepad file with the info if I ever need it again.
5) Open windows command prompt.
6) Type this without the quote marks "telnetenable.exe 192.168.0.1 {MAC ADDRESS of Router LAN Port - in step 3} {user id- default admin} {password- default password}
7) It should look like something like this - telnetenable.exe 192.168.0.1 000FB5A2BE26 admin password
8) Hit enter and you should get a message stating Payload has been sent to Netgear router. Telnet should be enabled.
9) Open DSL Stats, And go to config page. Select one of the netgear routers from the list and delete the username and password info. Hit the play button.

liamcrane · 5 Jul 2015 at 09:17

Many thanks for the above mate, it didnt seem to work though which was kinda annoying. I have changed my default router ip and default password for admin but i amended the new default ip for the d6400 in the ip box and left the user and pass blank but no luck

michty_me · 5 Jul 2015 at 10:35

I'm not 100% sure what you need to do. It took me a few attempts to do it anyway. Unfortunately I don't have the device any longer so hoping one of the other members with it steps up to help. There is a thread on here and in kitz that has a few members posting about the device.

MikeWilliams · 15 Oct 2015 at 11:11

liamcrane said:
Many thanks for the above mate, it didnt seem to work though which was kinda annoying. I have changed my default router ip and default password for admin but i amended the new default ip for the d6400 in the ip box and left the user and pass blank but no luck

I too had trouble getting it to work until I changed the router password.

My password was a strong one with Upper and Lowercase letters, numbers and symbols.

Changed it to "helloworld" as in the example and it worked, I now have telnet.

I suspect it is the symbols which are messing up things, but I haven't had a chance to experiment (I don't want to upset the DLM)

After enabling telnet I changed the weak password back to my strong one and telnet still works :-)