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The Huawei modem my ISP uses has a hardcoded admin password that can't be changed. It's actually higher privileges than the login you're supposed to use. So I
by kevin_nisbet 3y ago
The Huawei modem my ISP uses has a hardcoded admin password that can't be changed. It's actually higher privileges than the login you're supposed to use.
So I ended up building a separate firewall to isolate myself from that thing.
- hef19898 3y agoThe router from my ISP lives, with his own firewall, seperated by another, purely WiFi router with his own firewall from the home LAN. I guess he lives a happy life there. His separate WiFi comes in handy so sometimes.
- giobox 3y agoYou are possibly the kind of wifi channel hogging neighbor I just love, with your unnecessary extra wifi radiation.
- hef19898 3y agoWe have almost a dozen WiFis in our living room, two of which are ours. The blessing of living in a city between two reasonably large apartment buildings and two other houses.
- giobox 3y agoWith dual band routers being the norm, theres every chance you are really running 3 or 4.
- hef19898 3y agoThree, with one being, for all practical purposes, being contained by walls and reinforced concrete ceilings to the room the router is sitting in. 9 out 10 times you don't even see it in the next room.
- kevin_nisbet 3y agoLast time I checked my APs have recorded more than 200 wifi networks, in a complex of couple condo towers. But I still get great performance, haven't even needed to upgrade to Wifi 6.
- natebc 3y agoI live at a reasonably busy intersection but in a residential neighborhood in Durham NC. My unifi controller software has recorded 620 APs in the last 12 days. It's quite remarkable really.