The tutor shares his own experience with the Hitron wireless cable gateway cgnm-2250.

Recently we upgraded our wireless speed, so had to get a new router: the Hitron cgnm-2250.

The router came with some instructions, which were mainly pictures: I probably had to read about 50 words, and had it hooked up and working in under 10 minutes.

The Hitron cgnm-2250 offers two networks: a 2.4GHz, and a 5GHz. Looking at the available networks from a computer, the 5GHz one has -5G at the end of its name. One of my Windows 7 computers, as it sits, can use the 5GHz network; both our mobile phones can. Apparently, a computer that cannot use the 5GHz doesn’t list it as a choice.

The Hitron cgnm-2250 comes with a username and password printed on the device. I’ve read that, in such a case, the user should log in to the configuration interface and change the password, since the factory-set one may be known to others.

The instructions about how to log in to the Hitron cgnm-2250 configuration interface are clear and easy to follow. At first, the user logs in with the username and password printed on the device, then may change the password if desired. I changed it.

The consumer can just hook up the Hitron cgnm-2250 and sign the computers onto its networks without ever logging into its configuration interface. Doing so is probably tempting. However, some interesting options await the user who does log into the configuration interface:

1. Connected Clients, which shows all the devices using the router’s networks.
2. Manage Wi-Fi, where the user can change the sign-in password to each network.
3. Manage Login Credentials, where the user can change the password to the Hitron cgnm-2250 configuration interface.

In a future post I’ll talk more about the Hitron cgnm-2250:)

Source:

Hitron wireless cable gateway cgnm-2250 quick start guide.

Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.