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I thought that can be done remotely? On one of my old ISPs I could change every setting on the modem on the company's website. It was quite scary, actually, how
by jotm 13y ago
I thought that can be done remotely? On one of my old ISPs I could change every setting on the modem on the company's website. It was quite scary, actually, how little privacy I had in this regard. They could easily check the signal strength to the modem that way...
- DannyBee 13y agoIt absolutely can be done remotely. Every one of these modems does SNMP, exports everything it has in the way of statistics, and they can read it remotely The modems are nowadays configured to only allow requests from certain ip space with certain passwords because you could actually accomplish a lot in the docsis 1.0 days by messing around with SNMP.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoDepending on the modem manufacturer, you can still poison them with your own locally-loaded TFTP configuration file to override the speed configured from your cable provider. Disclaimer: The FBI was cracking down on people who were doing this. https://www.google.com/search?q=tftp+hack+cable+modem https://www.google.com/search?q=tftp+hack+cable+modem
- DannyBee 13y agoYes, and you could JTAG flash a bunch of them even after this.
- drakaal 13y agoYou could do a signal check remotely. You couldn't certify the line. How would you pull a new coax, or check that the end user didn't have a splitter between the modem and the tap? If you call tech support they lose a lot of money, and people at the bleeding edge tend to be the ones who call the most and take the longest to trouble shoot.