router hacked please help

qwert10

Hi guys my router seems to have been hacked as it keeps making sighing noises every now and then. It never used to.
Can I do anything or do I need a new router?
thanks will post the model when can get into the router room!! sleeping bods.

The_Fat_Controller

Are you pulling our legs ?
There is no speaker in a router, it will be a component failing, not a hack.
Is it getting hot and/or smelling strange ?
I would not leave it in a room with anyone sleeping if it's showing signs of failing.

IvanOpinion

Could it just be very bored with your surfing habits?

Neil_Jones

qwert10 said:

Hi guys my router seems to have been hacked as it keeps making sighing noises every now and then. It never used to.
Can I do anything or do I need a new router?
thanks will post the model when can get into the router room!! sleeping bods.

Seriously?

Far more likely to be electrical noise which may be a symbol of possibly something beginning to go inside the router itself, but nobody's going to "hack" a router to make it "sigh", that's bordering on the ridiculous.

Technically a hacker is defined as any skilled computer expert who uses their technical knowledge to overcome a problem, and not a label to be slapped on something that starts behaving in a unique way.

surfsister10

thanks for all the cynical comments I did just as for some help. My laptop was hacked then the new router started making a noise if it is just broken I will contact BT. Thanks anyway

Browntoa

Bt hubs are incapable of making any noise since dial up modem days.

I'd just buy a new unit off eBay , it's far cheaper than asking BT for a new one

The_Fat_Controller

Multiple personalities too !

k3lvc

surfsister10 said:

thanks for all the cynical comments I did just as for some help. My laptop was hacked then the new router started making a noise if it is just broken I will contact BT. Thanks anyway

But you didn't ask for help - @qwert10 did 

forgotmyname

k3lvc said:

surfsister10 said:

thanks for all the cynical comments I did just as for some help. My laptop was hacked then the new router started making a noise if it is just broken I will contact BT. Thanks anyway

But you didn't ask for help - @qwert10 did 

Did somebody forget what account they had logged in with? Too many accounts to keep track maybe?

missile

Maybe the hacker is surfsister10