Anybody know about hacked routers?

AndyPix

!!!!!! wrote: »

your solution doesn't cover.

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My solution eliminates the possibility of it being a hack .
Disabling WPS on the router is a trivial matter , and setting a complex password should be default behaviour anyway ..

With both these in place, you can be sure your wifi ISNT being hacked and must then look at who has access to this password , as that would be the only avenue left ..

Andy

AndyPix

!!!!!! wrote: »

Most users haven't a clue about sniffing MAC addresses and spoofing.

Im sure that's what both my next door neighbours think too

Security by obscurity isn't a thing ..

paddyrg

there's the WiFi password and the admin/login passoword - change both to be long/inconvenient. Keep the router behind a locked door (wireless means you can do this), and just for good measuer, put it on a timer switch.

Two belts and a set of braces, but I'll bet you a quid it solves the problem ;-)

bsod

plug the old one back in and monitor it, the answer is probably far simpler than a compromised router in the middle of nowhere. 0.75 GB a day is not a great amount

grumpycrab

Log of router. Nothing at all (no log retention?) Guess I could try it live again. To verify whether wifi related or other...

spannerzone

paddyrg wrote: »

there's the WiFi password and the admin/login passoword - change both to be long/inconvenient. Keep the router behind a locked door (wireless means you can do this), and just for good measuer, put it on a timer switch.

Two belts and a set of braces, but I'll bet you a quid it solves the problem ;-)

Powering off the router every night might end up with poor ADSL speeds as the exchange might see this regular disconnection as a line fault / poor performance and will possibly drop the speeds lower and lower in an automated attempt to improve reliability of the connection.

System

Check your system log configuration. You should be able to record more than that

Norman_Castle

grumpycrab wrote: »

Usage this month has averaged 0.75GB per day.

0.75GB per day is not a lot. Is it possible someone working there has been using youtube or iplayer or a similar video site?

Strider590

Could be someone was torrenting, perhaps they got into the router config and opened up ports for torrenting/downloading/streaming, but now they cannot.

Fightsback

The TP-Link TD-W8960N is way past support cut off depending on the hardware version (v1-v7) and has known vulnerabilities, I wouldn't waste any more time on it.

I'm assuming it's probably a V1 or V2.

http://www.tp-link.com/en/download/TD-W8960N_V1.html#Firmware

Concentrate on the new router that you've put in and monitor that one.