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Well here we are again on a beautiful Japan Autumn day after what turned out to be a very good weekend. Saturday morning my new ADSL modem arrived and I started with the re-jigging of the home network setup.

As Japanese apartments are generally CAT5 wired all I had to do was identify which port was the correct port for the ADSL modem and which direction was in and out of the junction boxes, plug it all in and I should have internet again to all the rooms in the apartment.

To my surprise all went well up until the point of configuration…. First step is to obviously connect to the modem, http://192.169.1.1 is the normal address, I was prompted for information straight away… turns out it wanted a new admin password, twice just to make sure….great..all going well…. 1 reboot of the modem later time to log in only this time its asking for a username and password..hmmm…. don’t remeber being asked to input a username, I didn’t read one on the docs provided either, I do actually know what the Kanji looks like for username and I couldn’t see it.

Well after 3 initializations and some deep breathing exercises I identified the username on a small glossy paper. It wasn’t written on the paper, I saw an example screen shot that showed a login in screen with a tiny little picture of the username.What do you know the username is “user” , anybody with an ADSL modem supplied by NTT docomo the username is “user” , from there all smooth sailing, a little bit of printer config as it decided it wanted a new IP address after the modem swap.

Now today is the day my internet speed gets a boost from 8mbps to 47mbps…hopefully all reports are good, at the moment I average around 6mbps real download speed, would like to see that jump to 10mbps or more.

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