Comments on: Why Tire Companies Shouldn’t Make Routers

By: cbg

cbg — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:56:17 +0000

Mustafa, I don’t remember paying for the router, but it’s been more than 3 years so I’m not entirely sure.

They probably won’t accept a return, but maybe you can convince them to replace the Pirelli with one of the Tilgin routers. I haven’t tested them myself, but it’s hard to make a router worse than the A226G. Also, I can confirm that at least one Tilgin model (not sure which) has great range: my neighbor has one and the signal is always strong in my apartment.

By: Mustafa

Mustafa — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:36:54 +0000

When the guys arrived , I told them is this router needed or not, because I’ve already had one and they said yes, and now I’m left alone with this crappy router, thanks god no problem has appeared yet but I had to pay 150 turkish liras for this “thing”. How can I compensate this? Any ideas?

By: yusuf

yusuf — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:29:47 +0000

cbg, thanks for your help, i hope our routers are safe (dont sent any code to blow up our routers, please.).

By: cbg

cbg — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:14:45 +0000

Yusuf,

I haven’t tried the update in comment #4, so I cannot vouch for its security. This whole post is about how insecure the router is, so I’m not really sure if I would risk it myself. My recommendation, if it’s not clear from the post, is to avoid the Pirelli at all costs and buy another router.

You can get your PPPoE username and password from Superonline customer services. Make sure you configure your new router *before* making the WAN connection. I found out the hard way that if your PPPoE configuration is incorrect, they will block your port and you have to call customer services to get it working again.

By: yusuf

yusuf — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:00:57 +0000

hi guys, i was looking for an update and i’m forwarded here, first of all i have a couple of questions there is a link at fourth comment for update is it secure?, and how can i connect my external hard drive to pirelli router? i wanna use my hard drive over home network, and the last question, when super online came and configured my internet at first time, they did not gave me the internet username and password, if i want to change my router, am i able to get my username and password?
secondly this modem is a piece of shit when i reach to admin panel to configure something i always get lost, the admin panels is too chaotic.

any help will be appreciated, thanks in advance.

By: Koray

Koray — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:11:35 +0000

Now I got everything under control. After two days of nightmare about port forwarding and configuration with the Pirelli modem, I’ve cloned the MAC address of the Pirelli to my Linksys WAG320N and after setting the first ethernet port to WAN, configuring it to use PPoE and entering the username and password, I am connected to the internet in 5 minutes. And guess what! I configured the port forwarding for the camera in 2 minutes and it actually works!!!
Now, whoever says that the Pirelli is a nice modem, I challenge you double!!!

By: Koray

Koray — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:23:16 +0000

It is 19:45. Superonline support guys have arrived. They will configure the Supercam service, which is actually a wireless IP webcam. Connect the cam. Configure. uPnP doesn’t work. Reset the modem to factory settings. Modem doesn’t get the configuration from the Superonline servers. No internet. Then after a couple of phone calls to the support service, internet is there again. The camera works with wired connection. The phone line works. Great! Now is the time to test the camera with wireless setup. You can imagine, it doesn’t work wireless. Maybe they have missed something. Let’s connect the cam to the wired port again…. Nop. Doesn’t work. uPnP fails. Manual port forwarding has no effect. Reset. No internet. No phone, no camera. 3 additional hours…. Internet is there finally, but no phone, no camera. Superonline support system/software/backoffice refuses to replace the modem. It is 23:45.
P.S. Just try to play around the menus of the modem and you’ll see that the more you change something, the more web interface gets slower and eventually the modem becomes non-responsive. Guess what.. Reset.
This IS a shitty modem. Period.

By: mete

mete — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:56:07 +0000

Tellcom’s (Superonline) fault. It’s like selling a Ferrari with 1.6 diesel engine.

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By: krcha

krcha — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:59:41 +0000

hahahahaha greatz from Serbia, i got this router few months ago… now i know im not only one with crappy router… btw Telekom Serbia also sucks with those routers