said by wayjac :

Can you post a screen capture of the home page of the flashed modem

said by Majoram :

What I am thinking is if there is a way to override the Gateway from being used for DNS.
Setting the Primary and Secondary DNS on the computer is not enough. What other DNS settings are there that I can set on my computer?

said by Majoram :

I still sorta think the 2wire has something to do with it though. Because the request for the Bell setup page has to sent out from the 2wire anyway.

said by Majoram :

Setting the Primary and Secondary DNS on the computer is not enough. What other DNS settings are there that I can set on my computer?

said by wayjac :

I think the browser redirect is being done by bell, at&t does something similar but only with the default username/password stored in the at&t 2wire.

In another thread you said:
That made me think the 2wire was doing the redirects. But after looking at the bell new user page I sure the browser redirect is bell's doing.

said by andyb :

Without having one I can't say.I'd just hookup the router and enter the user/pass in that instead if it's bridged.

said by andyb :

Is there a setup wizard in the modem?If so there maybe a way to change some things in it?

said by Majoram :

I got a new Bell 2wire to try out. I put in my Teksavvy username/password and it connects just fine and I can ping sites or torrent etc but I cannot access ANY website via IE or Firefox.

said by andyb :

Thats the url of the 2-wire.It means its getting dns from the 2wire

said by andyb :

I would assume holding in the reset button for 5 to 10 seconds would do it.I don't have one to test with thou.

said by wayjac :

Thanks for posting the bell 2wire pages.

If you changed the dns ip's in the 2wire that may not help.
You should try changing the dns on the computer.

The 2wire will do dns relay when a computers connected to it use its lan ip for dns ip.
The 2wire will play the role of a dns server, dns requests are checked against the 2wire dns name table if there's no match the request is forwarded to the ISP's DNS server.

said by andyb :

Have you tried resetting it and using some of the keys from 2 wire to activate it?

»www.2wire.com/index.php?p=268

said by andyb :

I know that lol but why isn't it working?

said by corkyy :

Majoram I'm 100% shure you don't need to register on the webpage( I had it), there is a workaround and I don't remember.

Could you check the dsn automaticaly set on the computer and the router? If you see "2wire" somewhere, replace it.

I think it was that, but It's been 4-5 month since I did it.

said by corkyy :

I Found on the net ( don't remember where ) that 2wire 2700, 2701 ( I had 2701HG-G) could be but on debug mode by dooing a short on pins 1-2-14 of the 14 pin jtag connector inside the modem...

It was working, the ip was 10.10.(dont remember the end) and dhcp was disabled as stated in the forum where I found that.

In the debug mode, there is suposely a way to remove all bell crap, but I had only 4 days before sending back the modem to sympatico and I didn't got able to found out how.

At job I have like 10 sympatico 2wire for sale, I'll put one on debug during next to see if there is really no way to but out bell out of them, But last time, I was, AGAIN, blocked at the MDC page...

said by andyb :

No not off hand.Why isn't it working with bell?

said by andyb :

What is the full model number?There are some firmware out there for some models for other isp's that aint as crappy as bell's

said by Majoram :

The page I get when trying to browse to a website?
Any other pages?

said by wayjac :

Can you post a image of the "Bell 2wire Setup Wizard webpage".
I sure would like to see it.

said by wayjac :

The wireless and the four port ethernet switch will still be useful.
The 2wire lan dhcp server needs to be disabled and connect a lan port to the other router/switch.

said by wayjac :

You can still use the four port ethernet switch and the wireless.