SingNet Integrated Wireless Modem

Got 2Wire’s integrated wireless modem (model 2700) from stink… I mean SingNet when I recontracted the 3Mbps plan (was 3.5 previously, so it’s kind of a downgrade, at a higher price, for me – there’s a difference between logging in with userid@singnet and userid@singnet3500, just do a speed test at speedtest.net).

The modem was delivered via SingPost services within 4 days. With it came SingNet’s installation CD which they call ‘SmartWizard’ though ’smart’ is a little overstretched. The installation procedure of SmartWizard is somewhat lengthy and unnecessary.

Since all I needed was just to replace my old modem and router with the new integrated one, I didn’t go through installation on SmartWizard.

I got the necessary information from 2Wire’s official website and proceeded with the installation via the wireless adapter already attached to my PC.

To connect wirelessly to the integrated modem, simply use the WEP key found just below the hardware’s serial number. After which, open any web browser and direct it to http://gateway.2wire.net.

http://gateway.2wire.net (address of the new hardware) is where you will be able to fully configure your modem according to your needs. This includes hiding and/or renaming your SSID, login details, firewall etc.

The only downside is that the signal strength of the 2700 is rather weak.

Gaming | IT | s0ulless March 7, 2008

3 Comments

By Protege, March 16, 2009 @ 10:50 am

You are a very kind and generous person.
By Mariella Chen, May 19, 2009 @ 12:44 am

Do you mean that this gizmo replaces both old modem AND router and you don’t need to have both? How does it work for the other computers conected wirelessly? Thanks.
By s0ulless, May 19, 2009 @ 10:42 am

Hi Mariella, yes, 2Wire’s 2700 replaces both the modem and router.

I might have misinterpreted your question but I presume that all your PCs/notebooks are connected directly to your modem and router wirelessly.

My own set-up is in such a way that all PCs/notebooks are connected, wirelessly, to the 2700 directly.

With the 2700, what I did was change its default wireless settings (channel, network name, encryption etc) to the one I had used before with my old modem/router.

This way, there wasn’t a need to reconfigure other PCs/notebook that were previously connected to the old modem/router.

Alternatively, if an entirely new wireless setting is used, you would have to reconfigure the settings of the wireless adapters on all your PCs/notebooks.

Hope this helps a bit.