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HG633 router pathetic user interface

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I have medium fibre (I think) and a talktalk router HG633.

 

I am trying to do *simple* management on my home network, and one of ther most important pieces of information is the attached devices on the wireless/lan. Typically the router is the DHCP server on the network and hands out IP addresses to the various devices in the house: printers, phones, tablets, laptops, PCs etc.

 

Luckily this router allows you to see the connected devices but boy, whoever wrote the software, what was he thinking.

 

You go to page "http://192.168.0.2/html/advance.html#landevices" and that shows you a list of all devices known by the router, historically and active right now. This is great.

 

When you hover the mouse over a device you get a tooltip with more info, its IP address and most importantly its MAC address. But there is no way to copy this information out of this web page and put it somewhere else. It is just a tooltip and it disappears into the ether as soon as your mouse moves.

 

You can take pen and paper and copy the information, of course, maybe take a screenshot and then type it in, but whoever wrote this software really liked to make things hard.

 

Still not as hard as the Virgin router which does not show you at all the list of connected devices (or no way I have found so far), so it could be worse.


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