All Bridge Mode on the Timer Warner DOCSIS Broadband Extreme UBEE router

Bridge Mode on the Timer Warner DOCSIS Broadband Extreme UBEE router

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As the title suggests, I have recently switched internet providers to Time Warner and received their new DOCSIS wireless router manufactured by UBEE.   In its out of the box experience, this router will try to be your; A) Modem B) Router C) Wireless Access Point D) Firewall. 

TW gives you a "user" account on the device to configure various end-user options.  Network security has been a hobby of mine for many decades and the thought of having a network device that someone else has admin and having access to my private subnet is not tolerable ;) 

To disable all of the functionality of the UBEE modem/router and use your own equipment you need to do two things:

  • Disable the Wireless
    • http://192.168.0.1
    • user: user  password: user
    • Navigate To: Wireless -> Primary Network
    • Primary Network = Disable
  • Put the device into Bridge Mode (Hidden Menu)
    • http://192.168.0.1/TlModeChange.asp  ** Please note, others below have been seeing different IP addresses depending on what area you are in such as http://192.168.100.1/TlModeChange.asp
    • user: user  password: user
    • Tools - Operation Mode
    • Select "Bridge mode"
    • click "Apply"
    • Enjoy - The UBEE device will now have a 192.168.100.1 IP address and be out of your way.
  • ** From an Anonymous Source below:
    • The hidden menu has a "secret" admin username and password. The username is the last 8 digits of the Ubee's mac address, and the password is c0nf1gur3m3
    • So log out of the user account and log back in using the master password. Be careful what you do in that mode!

Revision:

NAT, NAT, double-NAT. Boil and bubble, toil and trouble. It’s a curse. CrashPlan, for one, doesn’t like it much which sucks because CrashPlan is part of my backup strategy. Here’s how to dump the double-NAT by putting TWC’s UBEE DDW365 into Bridge Mode which makes it forget about Routing, NAT, DHCP, and Firewall duties (your personal router will handle those) and just be a modem.

Grab an Ethernet cable and use it to connect your laptop directly to the UBEE via one of its 4 LAN ports. Then navigate and login to:

  • 192.168.100.1 (admin interface)
  • Username is the last 8 characters of your UBEE’s MAC address in all caps, without the colons
  • Password: c0nf1gur3m3

Click Operation Mode and choose Bridge mode (the 1st choice).

Click apply and the UBEE will reboot.

Done. Now your Apple Time Capsule or whatever that big ol’ router in your living room is will handle the Routing, NAT, DHCP, Firewall duties, which is what we want. Subnets and Firewalls reduced from 2 to 1; only one DHCP service running on your home network. And most importantly, only one device doing NAT. Good god! How great is that? (YMMV :-)  )