Optimisation and Configuration of the Siligence SAS SGA441SW Internet Box

agata_marcus

Dear All,

We have recently update the speed of our Fibre Internet connection and we are busy doing some testing of it.

The Internet box is a Siligence SAS Model SGA441SW

I would be interested if there are any opinions and ways to optimise this box, either formally or unofficially

For those with longer memories you will recall that the previous generation of boxes had a SSH command line ability and the way to use a very Cisco like detailed command line setup and configuration.

This is NOT available as standard, or at all as far as I can determine with the white 'Internet Box'

Even in 'expert' mode from the GUI there are no real opportunity to do any sort of meaningful configuration.

I can imagine that from Swisscom's viewpoint they might want to lock down the configuration so that users can't screw up the box, but for those who would like to optimise the box I would have hoped that such access was available.

So with that said:

Is there a way to get better access to the box

- ssh or command line access

- ways to set up systems management or tailor the networking

and so on

Obviously I have googled this, and got zero replies. So anybody?

marcus bennet.

POGO 1104

agata_marcus wrote:
so with that said:

Is there a way to get better access to the box

@agata_marcus

short and long answer: **no way
**

for more functionality, you have to put another Router/Firewall of your choice into the DMZ of the Internetbox.

agata_marcus

Pogo,

thanks for the reply.

Well I am already suspicious of the capabilities of the White Swisscom Internet box not to be the bottleneck in our extensive home IT configuration.

That is why I asked the question.

In my testing so far to remove all other possibilities (e.g. the multiple routers and hardware firewalls that are already established by us), then testing centres on connecting a quality Cat 6 Ethernet cable directly from the Ethernet Swisscom box port to my test server.

And so far the performance using Speedtest and Other traditional benchmark techniques points to a bottleneck, which must one presume come from the Internet Box end.

So that is the full background to the question.

Regards Agata and Marcus.

Bungystar

Hi Agata and Marcus,

I found your post while looking for the exact same access as you.

I too have a Siligence SAS Model SGA441SW.

Did you find anything since your post in august?

I am highly interested in regaining access to those options.

Thank you.

Bungy

suisse

Still the same.

It's a black box, customize for stability so not many configuration options