The

Nokia Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporatio ...

M1122 is a 4-port

ADSL Asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) is a type of digital subscriber line (DSL) technology, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional voiceband modem can provide. ...

router that is known to have been sold in

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and

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in 2000–2002. In addition to its main task, the M1122 is capable of acting as a Ethernet hub in a

local area network A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building. By contrast, a wide area network (WAN) not only covers a larger ...

. The M1122 had a sister model, Nokia MW1122, with

Wireless LAN A wireless LAN (WLAN) is a wireless computer network A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data connections between network nodes. Wireless networking is a method by which homes, telecommunications networks and bus ...

capabilities. These two were the last ADSL routers ever to be manufactured by Nokia. In the last half of 2002 the model was discontinued along with the rest of Nokia's ADSL router operations.

Technical specifications

ANSI T1.413 Issue 2 ANSI T1.413 is a technical standard that defines the requirements for the single asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) for the interface between the telecommunications network and the customer installation in terms of their interaction and ele ...

(chipset by

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) * can be used either in

routed Routing is the process of selecting a path for traffic in a network or between or across multiple networks. Broadly, routing is performed in many types of networks, including circuit-switched networks, such as the public switched telephone netwo ...

bridged Bridging may refer to: Construction * Building of bridges across a gap * Cross bracing used between joists to stabilize them Electronics and computing * In electronics, using a low source impedance to drive a large load impedance for maximum vol ...

mode * connectors: ADSL line cord to the phone plug, power cord, CLI port, power switch and four

10BASE-T 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

ports * LEDs: power, status, ADSL line and 4*Ethernet * dimensions: width 22.5 cm, height 6.5 cm, depth 23 cm, weight 1 kg * Internal power supply: 100 - 240 V

Administration interface

There are two ways to do maintenance work in M1122. The preferred way to do that is via a

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interface. Users can, however, also choose to enter commands in a text-based console that can be reached both through

telnet Telnet is an application protocol used on the Internet or local area network to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication facility using a virtual terminal connection. User data is interspersed in-band with Telnet control i ...

and with a special

CLI CLI may refer to: Computing * Call Level Interface, an SQL database management API * Command-line interface, of a computer program * Command-line interpreter or command language interpreter; see List of command-line interpreters * CLI (x86 instruc ...

cable whose other end is attached to the computer's

COM port COM (communication port) is the original, yet still common, name of the serial port interface on PC-compatible computers. It can refer not only to physical ports, but also to emulated ports, such as ports created by Bluetooth or USB adapters. ...

. The router has a limitation, that when bridged mode is turned on, the CLI cable is the only way to maintain it. The CLI connector is an

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(RJ-45) female modular connector with a pinout similar to EIA/TIA - 561 but

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, swapping the DTE and DCE roles

References

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