A follow-up to my January posting about SBC's use of the 2Wire HomePortal HW1000, a 400 mW firewall / access point / DSL modem.
A new tenant moved into a building two doors down from my office. He was having other computer troubles, so I helped
him out. He has SBC DSL. I asked him if he took them up
on their "get a free wireless AP" sign-up offer; he said "no".
[...]
Later in the day his office was open. Sure enough, inside,
MiniStumbler says SNR 83, -28. I jump into the web interface of the modem and dig around until I find the wireless interface's "disable" button.
It's a good thing there's a disable button. He explicitly didn't want wireless and it made for a crappy day of debugging for me.
Great. In effect, SBC is sending out DSL routers with transmitters turned on polluting the spectrum, when in fact, some clients are not even using the devices. Just what we need...
Tim
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