6.04.2008

Access your Smart Bro Motorola Canopy Page and Speed up your Wireless Internet Connection

Why will i wanna go and access my Motorola Canopy Page, you ask? Well, it can help you to speed up and manage your Smart Bro internet connection or any internet connection actually that uses the Motorola Canopy Lite or even the older Canopy. By default, your Internet Service Provider may have disabled access to it or they may have not but you have no idea that you can do so. Once you have access, the possibilities are numerous, but the most likely use is to change your download and upload speed or to troubleshoot your connection by changing the Base Station you are connected with which maybe congested or is always down. So without further ado here are the Two Ways to access your Smart Bro Motorola Canopy Page:

First and Easy Way:

1. In Windows XP, go to Control Panel then to Network Connections. Look for Local Area Connection which is your SmartBRO connection. In Windows Vista, it's slightly different, you either go to Control Panel, then to Network and Sharing Center under Classic View, then choose on the left, Manage Network Connections, there you will see your SmartBro connection which is the Local Area Connection. Another way in Windows Vista is to right click on the Network Connected Icon in your taskbar and select Network and Sharing Center, then Manage Network Conections, then Local Area Connection.

2.) Either OS you have, right click Local Area Connection and select Properties.

3.) Under Windows XP, This connection uses the following items:, double-click on Internet Protocol TCP/IP. Under Windows Vista, This connection uses the following items:, double-click on Internet Protocol Version 4 ( TCP/IPv4).

4.) Set your IP address to 169.254.3.3, and subnet mask to 255.255.0.0., disregard Gateway IP.

5.) Click OK, and close all windows.

6.) Open your internet browser which should be preferably, FireFox,
, and enter in the address bar, 169.254.1.1 , this will take you to the Canopy MS page. That's the first way to access the Motorola Canopy Page.

Second Way (and more complicated one):

Since the IP Address, 169.254.1.1, will not work this time, unlike the first method, the following steps will help you identify your Canopy address:

1. Follow steps 1-3 from the first method.

2. Then, this time, set your IP address to 10.20.30.40, and subnet mask to 255.0.0.0

3. In Windows XP, on the Start menu, select Run, and type cmd. In Windows Vista, just type, cmd , in "Start Search"

4. Once in the cmd "black widow," enter the following command: arp -a. It will display the IP addresses connected to your network. Look for an IP address beginning with 10 (10.xxx.xx.xx), take note of it, this is your Canopy address. Note: your Canopy address is not the one with 10.0.0.1.

5.) Close the command prompt window or cmd and open your web browser, preferably Firefox,
, and enter your Canopy address in the address bar, that Canopy address is the one you've taken note in step no.4 (10.xxx.xx.xx). That's it. You can now enter you're Canopy Page.

Once in the Motorola Canopy page, the possibilities are endless actually, but in this tutorial, the only ways useful is of course to speed up your download or upload speed.

Once in the Motorola Canopy Page, go to Configuration, then to Quality of Service (QoS) Tab. There, enter your desired Sustained Uplink Data Rate and Sustained Downlink Data Rate, note that in Motorola Canopy Lite which i am using, there is a cap of : 1000 kbps, so i choose 750 for downloads and 250 for uploads. It is now up to you to choose whatever suits your internet needs. Don't forget to also Enable
Hi Priority Channel. See the pic below, it is my own configuration.

SmartBro Canopy Page

To troubleshoot your connection or to simply gawk at it, you can go to Tools, then choose the AP Evaluation tab, there yuo will see the various Base Stations available within your area range. Look for your Color Code Number, the ideal Color Code (or Base Station) is the one with a high RSSI and low Jitter. You can now chage your Color Code (Base Station) in Configuration -> Radio tab. You can change it, then click on Save Changes and then ReBoot.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey mate... i've been trying to access in my Motorola Canopy,by following the steps that have been given, by you... but I tried the firs t and the second way... and it does not work... Can you post some other way of accessing the Canopy... It's not important how complicated is... it's important that it will be a working way...

thanks...

cedron said...

Thanks for the hand...

dionna said...

hey.. i tried the first and second way.. but same with anonymous it doesn't work.. im desperate! help!

Anonymous said...

tol, a color code does not necessarily correspond to a different BTS. on a single BTS, smart might have installed at least two (usually six) motorola canopy APs. the color codes correspond to each AP on the same BTS. they are facing different sectors though.

Anonymous said...

Sorry does not work at all, Firefox says, connection exists, but is blocked for some reason. My canopy was installed during May 2008

hayes said...

It didnt work for me however, if you move the SU (your canopy radio)so that it cannot communicate with the AP unit(their tower) by turning it 180 degrees and then try the first method again...it may work...worked for me!
-Hayes

Anonymous said...

For those of you having trouble, you may actually have to go outside and turn the unit 180 degrees so it cannot communicate with the tower ap unit.

While it's turned away, follow the first method above and it should work!

Remember to mark the direction your subscriber unit is facing so that you can put it back in the same place after making your modifications!

Good luck!

-Hayes

Anonymous said...

Is it possible to see the Quality of the Antenna Signal

Anonymous said...

can anyone give an info about moving to some place without paying the relocation fee. I mean like i'm in bukidnon now and i'm planning to move to davao and i do not want to pay the relocation fee. my question is, can i move the antenna by myself and bring it to davao and configure by myself? if so what procedure do i need to do? please help me i need help.

Anonymous said...

what would be the default password be to access these settings..

leesralph@yahoo.com

Anonymous said...

This does not work. You need a default plug for the first method and as far as the second method goes you need to be on the same subnet mask as the AP. Also you have to know the password for the AP to access the configuration pages. The color code is set by the wireless company to correspond with the AP on the tower. You change it you lose connection. :) Hope this helps

Anonymous said...

i did acces for just by typing 169.254.1.1 in browswer but i did have to disable my wireless laptop first to access it, but i can't LOG IN threre some kind of password in the canopy home page any help!!!

Anonymous said...

Cual es la contraseña por defecto, solo puedo ver la pagina de status y no puedo ingresar a cambiar los valores de configuración... Gracias

Anonymous said...

hello every body the best thing you do is:
1. get rj11 connect the no.4 and 6 pin
2. remove the cover of canopy
3. insert the rj11
4. plug and unplug the power adapter
5. unplug power adapter and wait for 30 seconds
6. plug the adapter. congrats you can now access 196.254.1.1

Anonymous said...

any one who can give me the administrator password.. tenks

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