> If there is one thing I have never ever in my life done with said routers, it must be changing their configuration while not at home. Connecting to the route

> If there is one thing I have never ever in my life done with said routers, it must be changing their configuration while not at home. Connecting to the router over the Internet and waking (WoL) up a computer behind it to pull some data is a neat trick, though today with cloud storage (Dropbox&co) there is no need for it. The only viable use for remote management is taking care of someone else's network but even that is usually unnecessary because network configuration only needs to be done once. It's yet one more reason to run software you can truly control if only possible: > This is why you should demand open source in your router, open source in your operating system, and open source in any application software that is important to your life. Because if you don’t own it, it will surely own you. http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4441 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4441