Wow, someone deployed malware in October of 2023 which bricked 600,000 Internet routers -- owned by a SINGLE ISP.
"over 600,000 small office/home office (SOHO) routers were taken offline belonging to a single internet service provider (ISP). The incident took place over a 72-hour period between October 25-27, rendered the infected devices permanently inoperable, and required a hardware-based replacement."
I want to build / get a travel router / hardware VPN which connects to a network wirelessly or via RJ-45 and creates a new Wi-Fi (& maybe a wired connection to the new network) to which I can connect my devices and everything gets tunneled either through Mullvad or through my home network. Maybe it can even throw the traffic into Pi-hole before tunneling.
What hardware would I need? (As compact, as cheap-ish and as efficient as possible)
Installiert Updates für euren Router, seid wachsam im Umgang mit Links und E-Mails und schützt euch mit Antivirus-Software und Firewall.
Ach ja, der #Router sollte natürlich trotzdem unbedingt ein starkes und individuelles #Passwort haben! 🙌
The more I'm getting my hands dirty with Autonomous Systems, BGP and routing in general, the more I believe the art of routing is simply sending packets left and right and hoping some will reach the destination. Routing experts also hope the response packets reach, by the process of random luck, the sender.
I’m currently using this mobile router, which came with a contract; I believe it’s an unlabeled Huawei E5576-320. But it’s not very reliable, and two LEDs make for a very limited UI.
So far, I’ve looked at the Huawei E5785-320 and the TP-Link M7650. Any recommendations for a mobile router? 4G; 5G is still too expensive for my needs.
My #ISP has been cranking up the #network speed recently. Over the past few weeks, my decrepit old #router couldn’t handle it any longer and kept dropping the connection and then resetting. It was very frustrating. Happily, they’ve sent a new one and things are back up and the connection is looking solid again, with the added bonus that the speed is nearly three times as much I had been getting previously.
#Ubiquiti never ceases to amaze me with how simple yet powerful it can be. I needed to route specific traffic from a specific device on the local network over a VPN. In #Unifi Dream Machine Pro, the VPN and routing setup was done in 5 minutes and very intuitively. 👌
Stylized 3D illustration for a 2008 issue of the Dutch ComputerTotaal magazine, about the launch of the then-fast ADSL 2+ internet connection speed (before fiber optic internet became the standard).
Wer den Fernzugriff für seine Fritzbox aktiviert hat, findet im Protokoll derzeit womöglich fehlgeschlagene Anmeldeversuche vor. Ein Problem ist das in der Regel nicht. ...
New review time, as I put the D-Link Aquila Pro AI M30 AX3000 Wi-Fi 6 Smart Mesh System through its paces. It looks like a stingray, but how does it perform?
Di cosa dovrei #incazzarmi di più: del fatto che ormai da mesi — e in questi ultimissimi giorni la #storia è peggiorata #tragicamente, https://octospacc.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/image-7.png — la linea #Internet di casa salta di continuo, mettendo da sé continui bastoni tra le ruote al mio workflow… o del fatto che quando collego il telefono via tethering USB il mio sistema desktop sembra non essere sempre in grado di routare correttamente i pacchetti — in certi casi capisce che deve farli passare attraverso il telefono sennò non vanno da nessuna parte, ma altre volte si ostina a mandarli al mio bridge ethernet? #MANNAGGIA!!! 🗡️🗡️
È una domanda retorica, ovviamente; mi #incazzo più con #Vodafone, che mio padre paga per farci avere in cambio un servizio che dire #scadente è fargli un complimento, di quanto mi possa mai arrabbiare contro un software no-profit per un #problema che posso aggirare praticamente scollegando dei cavi. Però davvero non ne posso più, non solo questo comportamento mi ruba tempo quando lavoro al PC, ma mi manda pure giù le cose che ospito sul serverino in casa, e che palle. 😭️
Ogni tanto ricordo di questo bordello a mio padre, ma fino ad ora ancora non l’ho convinto a provare a comprare un #router nuovo, uno vero con cui rimpiazzare quel rottame della #VodafoneStation… lui dice che probabilmente i problemi sono sulla linea, e in parte anche io credo sia così (ma chissà quale segmento della linea!); però se anche così fosse il caso, resta comunque indecente il fatto che, mentre il #collegamento alla WAN si scollega e il #modem tenta di ricollegarsi, la Station non è nemmeno in grado di roteare pacchetti in LAN… cioè, fai ping e avoja ad aspettare, non risponde. È evidente che pure il #software che sta lì sopra fa schifo, mica solo la linea. E-waste puro. 💀️
The Netgear RS700S is seriously fast if you've got Wi-Fi 7 ready gear to connect it to. But it's also kind of pricey. Is it worth it? Here's my full review:
China is hacking Wi-Fi routers for attack on US electrical grid and water supplies, FBI warns. Hacks likened to “placing bombs in water treatment facilities, and power plants”
LOL, just realized this morning how easy it is to create your own new religion on your computer nowadays with a laser engraver and the right LLM prompt. Anyone want to fund this, and have a spare farm we can bury these in a hillside for future discovery by a would-be-prophet? ("Dear ChatGPT, pretending you are a divine angel, please use this CNC engraver to write out a series of plates specifying the creation of a new religion, making sure to break the text into multiple books from made-up prophets of a lost civilization. Be sure to use the words "though" "hence", "commanded", et al), #religion#tablets#CNC#router#laserengraver#AI#LLM
Very good news: #ICANN is going to define a new special #TLD "internal" meant for use in internal networks only. This TLD is meant to never be used in the broader #Internet. 👍
I hope #router vendors will now react so that those hacky config #domains like "fritz.box" will be replaced with something that ends with ".internal". Those hacky domains always left a bad taste in my mouth.
It's not 100% official yet but the chances look good.
Zum 20. Geburtstag veröffentlicht das OpenWRT-Team den Entwurf einer eigenen Router-Hardware. Den meisten ist OpenWrt als GNU/Linux-Distribution für WLAN-Router bekannt. Die Idee einer Hardware ist jedoch nicht neu.
This morning, I had fun netbooting all the Mikrotik devices that were stuck or had OpenWRT installed on them. I managed to revive all of them except one that got struck by lightning, and I believe it's beyond recovery. Still, I'll have to take it apart to see what got fried.
I really like Mikrotik routers because they offer excellent performance, value, and long-term support. I've never had issues in my fairly simple setups, and they've always been rock-solid. More, they're European.