Thread: Is your home wi-fi router safe?

Home routers used to connect to the Internet are plagued by security problems, a Wall Street Journal examination has found.

To test the extent of the problem, the Journal commissioned a computer-security researcher to evaluate 20 new popular wireless routers. The analysis focused on security issues, such as whether the device had up-to-date software or was vulnerable to known hacking exploits.

The Journal chose the routers from the top five manufacturers by U.S. sales, according to market research firm IDC. Specific models were chosen based on manufacturer reports and sales ranking on Amazon.com.....

Is Your Home Router Vulnerable to Hackers? - WSJ.com

In answer to your question: No.

Originally Posted by Hans Mann

Is your home wi-fi router safe?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

In answer to your question: No.

I have the ac66u flashed with tomatoVPN and I am comfortable with its security

2 SSID's - one that I use for my equipment and one for everyone else and the televisions etc

When everyone insists on mispronouncing a word it can only end in disaster.

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by Hans Mann

Is your home wi-fi router safe?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

In answer to your question: No.

I have the ac66u flashed with tomatoVPN and I am comfortable with its security

2 SSID's - one that I use for my equipment and one for everyone else and the televisions etc

Mine are as safe as they can be until someone discovers another exploit.

And behind one of these....

I would say the security of the router is the least of peoples worries

the top 25 passwords for 2015 as compiled from the 2 million passwords leaked this year from various breakins

PEBKAC - problem exists between keyboard and chair

1. 123456 (Unchanged)
2. password (Unchanged)
3. 12345678 (Up 1)
4. qwerty (Up 1)
5. 12345 (Down 2)
6. 123456789 (Unchanged)
7. football (Up 3)
8. 1234 (Down 1)
9. 1234567 (Up 2)
10. baseball (Down 2)
11. welcome (New)
12. 1234567890 (New)
13. abc123 (Up 1)
14. 111111 (Up 1)
15. 1qaz2wsx (New)
16. dragon (Down 7)
17. master (Up 2)
18. monkey (Down 6)
19. letmein (Down 6)
20. login (New)
21. princess (New)
22. qwertyuiop (New)
23. solo (New)
24. passw0rd (New)
25. starwars (New)

Originally Posted by baldrick

I have the ac66u flashed with tomatoVPN and I am comfortable with its security

2 SSID's - one that I use for my equipment and one for everyone else and the televisions etc

I understood three words of that.... maybe.

Originally Posted by baldrick

the router




your LAN is firewalled
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No offence, mind, Just dont unnnerstan

I had this router

TP-LINK Wireless N ADSL2+. Model No. TD854W

it got compromised. I took it back to TOT whom knew there was a design fault in this model. Would they change it? Would they fcuk. I had to buy a new version.

https://teakdoor.com/computer-news/151087-virus.html (Virus??)

^One of the T's in TOT stands for Thailand, I think.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

it got compromised

most of the TP links should be able to be flashed with openwrt - and it is pretty user friendly with a full GUI via browser

I use openwrt on a TPlink MR3040 travel router for fun and ...

If you can't flash 'em, fling 'em.

too complicated to find out, as long as you can leave it on all the time and it does not set fire to the house I don't care, that's safe enough

I was reading this yesterday and with the costs of these minipc's it looks like a dual NIC unit is the way to go next time - as the speeds increase on fibre connections it will be useful

Numbers don’t lie—it’s time to build your own router

With more speed available and hardware that can't adapt, DIY builds offer peak performance.


I've noticed a trend lately. Rather than replacing a router when it literally stops working, I've needed to act earlier—swapping in new gear because an old router could no longer keep up with increasing Internet speeds available in the area. (Note, I am duly thankful for this problem.) As the latest example, a whole bunch of Netgear ProSafe 318G routers failed me for the last time as small businesses have upgraded from 1.5-9mbps traditional T1 connections to 50mbps coax (cable).
Yes, coax—not fiber. Even coax has proved too much for the old ProSafe series. These devices didn't just fail to keep up, they fell flat on their faces. Frequently, the old routers dropped speed test results from 9mbps with the old connection to 3mbps or less with the 50mbps connection. Obviously, that doesn't fly.
These days, the answer increasingly seems to be wireless routers. These tend to be long on slick-looking plastic and brightly colored Web interfaces but short on technical features and reliability. What's a mercenary sysadmin to do? Well, at its core, anything with two physical network interfaces can be a router. And today, there are lots and lots of relatively fast, inexpensive, and (super important!) fully solid-state generic boxes out there.
So, the time had finally come. Faced with aging hardware and new consumer offerings that didn't meet my needs, I decided to build my own router. And if today's morphing connectivity landscape leaves you in a similar position, it turns out that both the building and the build are quite fast.

Numbers don?t lie?it?s time to build your own router | Ars Technica

^ yeah, looks a piece of piss to set up mate

^ get your 8 year old nephew to do it for you if you are not up to it

^^ Use DD-WRT it has a better UI and more community support.

MyOpenRouter | The Premier Online Community for NETGEAR's Family of Open Source & Open Platform Routers

Open-Router.ORG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...mware_projects

^ Why? It sucks compared to DD-WRT.

You know sometimes Snubby you really are a cock.

If you bothered opening the links you'll see DD-WRT is in there.

Most of it would go over your fucking head anyway.

I tried DD-WRT back in 2008 when I was using tomato on wrt54gl's ( I had 30 + deployed ) thinking that it might solve a problem I was having , but I found it to be bloated and slow compared to tomato .

I also experimented with openwrt at the time which was good but it was quite technical to configure even with the gargoyle GUI

I have used tomatoVPN mostly over the years with some openwrt but tomato seemed to have the edge - especially with its fine grained QoS settings

I launched potato via pvc. Used ether sparked by Piezo igniter. Very fast but safety an issue.

Best bet is to flash tune up the vim with the scart input vector.
Drop your blueberry pie into the Google quad milli processer
After that simply plug and play the USB alongside the FireWire port, re-jig the octometer and simply re-boot the nano-flextechtrics.

Not really a big deal if you know what you're doing.

Is your home router safe?

Depends.