Re: [clug-talk] open Internet safety

2015-08-12 Thread Gustin Johnson
What do you mean by He says he noticed that any password will get him onto the Telus router and he is now afraid that this exposes his (Windows) computer to being hacked? Are we talking about a wifi password to join to the network or the password for the admin user on the router itself? I have a

Re: [clug-talk] open Internet safety

2015-08-12 Thread PUB @ Keystreams.net
This does pose security problems - one that springs to mind is that with access to the router, ports can be opened thusly allowing any open ports on his computer to be accessed as well. On 08/12/2015 12:05 PM, Ralph Boland wrote: I have a roommate in the house where I live and unfortunately the

Re: [clug-talk] open Internet safety

2015-08-12 Thread Shawn Grover
Could it be that the router has a guest access mode? I have seen some routers where you can set up a secured wifi password for one band (say the 5 GHz band), while allowing reduced guest access on the other band. If this is the case, perhaps the guest access mode does not have security set

[clug-talk] open Internet safety

2015-08-12 Thread Ralph Boland
I have a roommate in the house where I live and unfortunately the Internet contract is between him and Telus. He refuses to fix a problem one of my other roommates has noticed. He says he noticed that any password will get him onto the Telus router and he is now afraid that this exposes his