Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Botnets, APTs

Re:Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Bot... by ourmandave on Monday April 16, 2018 @07:46AM (#16848270)

Side note: If there's one tech support job for friends and family I don't mind doing it's helping them replace the slow modem their ISP is "renting" them.

I was paying $60 per year for a DOCSIS 2 modem. Replaced it with a DOCSIS 3 for $90. Huge speed boost for almost free.

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Re:Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Bot... by commandlinefan on Monday April 16, 2018 @10:59AM (#16849403)

I've been begging my wife for years to let me upgrade the crap modem that the ISP is loaning us. She's terrified that if I touch anything, it's all going to break, and since she works out of the house, she won't be able to get online. Sigh...

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Re:Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Bot... by tbihl on Monday April 16, 2018 @09:48AM (#16848929)

And based on the last 3 providers I've had, you were getting a steal at $60/yr

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