Or you could purchase and use a separate modem and router of your own. Or you could also try to get MediacomChad here on the forums to turn off ClearAccess on the modem, or you could call Mediacom and request the same.

If you have a Mediacom email account set up you could try logging in at » The (supposed) value-added benefit is that in case you need help with something then Mediacom can also manage your local network using that system. Basically: web-based management of your local network. I think what you might be getting is Mediacom's ClearAccess system. I do it, the modem resets, but the login doesn't go back to 'admin/password'. Second problem - I can now no longer do the '30-second press of the reset' to do a hard reset. So, my first question is how in the world did it get reset back? Is this something Mediacom does remotely? In my old setup, I had a non-wireless modem attached to an Apple Airport Extreme - so I never had any problems with things getting reset. Two days later I woke up, and 'my_name Wifi Network' had returned back to 'my_name', which is what the installer had originally set my SSID network name to. I changed the SSID name for the network, set up a new password, and did a couple of other tweaks.

I did, and I was able to get in with 'admin/password'. No problem I thought - I'll hard reset the modem. When he left, I realized he'd changed the modem's admin login to something other than admin/password, and hadn't told me what it was. The installer installed the multi-room DVR, and a new (for me) Technicolor TC8305C modem. Just this week I switched over to Mediacom's 'triple play' for phone, internet, and TV. i was a DirecTV subscriber, but used Mediacom for my internet.

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