Connection Status; Change Passwords - NETGEAR CG2003D User Manual

Connection Status

Use the Connection screen to track the gateway's initialization procedure, and to get details
about the downstream and upstream cable channel. After the cable modem is initialized you
can see the current time.
This screen shows the progress of the steps that the gateway automatically goes through in
the provisioning process:
It acquires and locks the downstream channel
1.
It acquires the upstream parameters and range.
2.
It locks the upstream channel
3.
It acquires the IP address through DHCP
4.

Change Passwords

The gateway has two user names and passwords. They are case-sensitive.
For superuser access, the user name is MSO and its default password is changeme.
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For access to all gateway features except content filtering, the user name is admin and
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its default password is password for the password, both in lower case letters.
NETGEAR recommends that you change these passwords be more secure. The ideal
password should contain no dictionary words from any language, and should be a mixture of
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