#Cisco udi from 4500 update
#Cisco udi from 4500 software
#Cisco udi from 4500 password

QoS takes a slightly different tack than normal here, allowing you to rank devices and applications, although only the top three. A series of customisable squares on the right offer immediate information when you log in, while the menus on the left give access to the rest of the features, with all functionality now exposed. Once in, the interface is attractive and well laid out, and the features return. No thank you.ДЄh, so it's hiding all the goods online now. where there was a check box on whether we wanted to receive advertisements to our email. Hmm.Д®ntering another password, we were eventually sent to Cisco's web page to sign up.

#Cisco udi from 4500 password

But the password box doesn't accept greater or less-than symbols, even though they're valid in the classic interface, and they work perfectly fine in Connect Cloud's web interface. As a smart first move, it asks us to set the wireless SSID and password. Success! The program is smart enough to connect over wireless without the user needing to do a thing with the Windows settings. Force-resetting the router to turn DHCP back on, we tried once more. Of course, this made setting up the EA4500 on our desktop without wireless utterly impossible. Yes, the risk is minimal if the user sets it up straight away, but it's a mindless decision. Crazier still, the router ships with an open Wi-Fi connection to enable this. For a start, it will only connect over wireless, not via a wired connection.

#Cisco udi from 4500 software

The router detection and set-up software is, sad to say, laughable. The same rule applies if you want to run a DHCP server from elsewhere.

This presents another problem: if you don't want to live with NAT'd access to the rest of your network (which definitely got in the way of our wireless benchmarking), you're going to have to not use the WAN port - which means no access to all of the router options. Daisy chain off another router using a LAN port, and Connect Cloud doesn't work at all, only giving you access to the basic web interface.

#Cisco udi from 4500 update

Uploading the firmware (which is seemingly a modified EA4200 firmware from the file name), we were told that the update had failed - only to be presented with the classic Cisco interface, bringing back-port forwarding, parental controls, QoS, MAC filtering, firewall control, UPnP, guest network and USB management all things that should be standard.ДЇlicking back to the Connect Cloud firmware, we came across our first problem: as always, the router is quite stupid in terms of detecting an internet connection, and will only do so if the WAN port is connected.