[wellylug] DSE XH8287 Access Point - how to change settings?

[Andrew Tarr]

OK, got it working! for future reference, the default IP for the XH8287 
is 192.168.1.250. Username/password is admin/admin.



On 22/02/14 19:35, Klaatu wrote:
> In the past, I have re-set an AP (usually a recessed reset button
> somewhere on the back or bottom of the unit), and then plugged my
> computer directly into the AP, put myself onto the same subnet, and
> navigated to the IP address it held by default. That has worked for me,
> although I have not tried with the exact same brand as the one you have.
>
> -klaatu
>

Yes, but I didn't know the IP address (and hence not the subnet), dear 
Liza, dear Liza... that was the whole point of the excercise!

I had tried just having my computer and the AP on the network to see 
whether I could DHCP me an IP address, and I also tried setting it to 
192.168.1.10 and tried 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.254.

I tried nmap on 192.156.1.0/24 too, but didn't get anything.

But your email, plus Cliffp's suggestion to keep nmap'ing, plus 
Kingsley's suggestion that the router-inspired route might mean I wasn't 
able to ping it while it was trying to route through the router, 
prompted me to go back to a manually-configured 192.168.1.10 address and 
nmap'ing from there.  Lo and behold, the AP turned up!

Thanks to everyone who helped.  I now have changed the IP to be on the 
same subnet as everything else, reset the SSID, configured WPA, and 
changed the password.

BTW, is WPA satisfactory? It seems this device is too old for WPA2...

Interestingly, in my travels, I found this site explaining how to hack 
it to install DD-WRT...

http://www.marlwifi.org.nz/projects/xh8287-hack

It is a bit of a hardware hack...

I haven't soldered anything much since I was a kid, and even then I 
didn't do a lot, so this is probably a little beyond my skill set at the 
moment, but might be an interesting project...

-Andrew.
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