Actiontec Electronics

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Actiontec Electronics, Inc. is a company headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, that designs and sells networking and broadband equipment. They are best known for the Actiontec MI424WR router that is given to Verizon customers, specifically its FiOS customers.

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[edit] MI424WR

This router is one of the first to offer a Coax MoCA connection, which allows it to feed data (e.g. video) for set top boxes. In addition to the WAN coaxial connection are four 10/100 megabit ethernet ports and one 10/100 megabit ethernet WAN uplink port. It uses an XScale-IXP4xx/IXC11xx rev 1 (v5b) processor. It runs a BusyBox distribution of the Linux (embedded) operating system. The antenna is removable and uses a reverse polarity SMA connector.

The factory issued login is admin and password is password.

[edit] GPL violation lawsuit

On 7 December 2007, the Software Freedom Law Center filed a copyright infringement lawsuit on behalf of the two principle authors of BusyBox against Verizon for distributing the MI424WR router without complying with the GNU Public License requirement to also publish the source code.[1]

On 9 February 2008, Actiontec released their source code for the MI424WR as required by the GPL.

[edit] Revisions of router

As of November 2007 there are three different hardware revisions of this hardware.

Revisions A and B of this router have a large squared off clamsehell that is not Verizon branded. The revision C changes the clamshell to a slightly smaller design with rounded edges. The Verizon FiOS edition of the router is now branded in the firmware and on the clamshell, and is labeled as revision C or D.

Front of Actiontec MI424WR

Rear of Actiontec MI424WR

Older version of MI424WR

open

top

bottom

antennas

shell bottom

faceplate trim ring

trim ring close up

[edit] References

  1. ^ BusyBox Developers File GPL Infringement Lawsuit Against Verizon Communications - Software Freedom Law Center

[edit] External links

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