Tips & tricks

If you get the error message "Service Temporarily Unavailable" when you connect to the e-services administration, you can simply change the email address used as your login and that should do the trick.

Connect to the web interface of the bbox (http://192.168.1.1) Go to ' Advanced Settings ' > ' Route ' and select the tab ' Routing ' on the top of page. At the really bottom of the page, uncheck the port you would use as internet ports and check those you want to use as TV ports. #1

Deleting Lan Server entires via the BBOX web interface is a pain when there are more than five entries to delete. Hopefully, you can connect to the telnet interface to achieve this task 10 times quicker : Connect to the router via telnet (check this post to figure out how to connect via telnet) Check the ID numbers of the entries you want to delete: You can hover the button to edit or delete an entry in the web interface in order to see the ID in the URI Or you can run this command rg_conf_print /fw/rule/loc_srv/ to see the list of Lan Servers Run the following command for each ID to delete where [ID] is the id to delete : rg_conf_del /fw/rule/loc_srv/ [ID] If you don't want to execute the command manualy, you can use my tool . Usage : bbox_fw_delete_id -i [bbox_ip] -l [login_name] -p [password] -s [start_id] -e [end_id] This tool is provided 'as is' and could not work as expected or even corrupt your BBox. .NET library used to write this tool

Connect via telnet on your belgacom routeur telnet 192.168.1.1 Login : admin Password : BGCVDSL2 (default password) Check if config is the same as expected  Following command should return  (enabled(1)) rg_conf_print upnp/enabled Change the configuration rg_conf_set upnp/enabled 0

Prerequisites : Synology NAS accessible via SSH lynx installed on the nas (you can install it with ipkg) If you want to remotly access to the router's web configuration page but didn't enable the option before, here is the way to do it : Connect via SSH to your server inside your local network Telnet the BBOX (192.168.1.1) login : admin pwd : BGCVDSL2 (if you didn't change it) Change the remote port with the following command  rg_conf_set admin/https/1/port 7777 Enable the remote access rg_conf_set admin/https/1/remote_access 1 Exit telnet Connect to the web interface localy with lynx (a command line webbrowser) lynx 'http://192.168.1.1/index.cgi?user_name=admin&password=BGCVDSL2' This is done probably because the admin web interface need to be accessed in order to load the new parameters You can now connect on your BBOX web interface through port 7777 #1   #2