Check for a pinswitch on the back or underneath, hold that down for a (usually) abnormal amount of time & it will revert to factory mode.
I would tell them: Then shut the WiFi down on this, and put my own router behind theirs. No way would I run my stuff on the LAN side of the router that I couldn't manage myself.A few months ago I upgraded to a much faster Internet speed. And the telephone company came out and make some changes and gave me a new DSL modem/router. And when I asked how do I access it to change the WiFi password or something. He said, oh we don't allow you to go in there. Need something changed, call the telephone company. So I've been trying from time to time to hack into the BEC8920AC. But so far all of my attempts have been futile.
I've tried dd-wrt, used to use tomato but ever since I started dumaOS i found out it does all the same stuff with a much better (to me) ui. tbh though most people aren't going to use most of those features, qos yeah & that's actually a feature more router should have (they're starting to), geofilter is useful for gaming but everything else probably isn't for the average person.
FWIW if anyone does decide to do custom firmware just be careful not to brick the thing.
Yeah you can do that, the router in question should be in ap mode.
btw I have some wireless arlo cams that are fine imo, there's some stuff it's just a pita to turn wires to... as long as you have some form of encryption it's fine, I reccommend putting the whole thing behind a vpn on a separate Lan switch, since it'd only be possible locally, nobody is important enough for someone to hide in a bush for a with a laptop for the 3+ years necessary to crack it.
The arlo cams if you have a netgear router, have their own encrypted channel you can use, though I don't know anything about it since I've never taken a look at it, I use the same switch for all the smart home stuff.
I have actually read about that, it makes sense since I'm always hypoglycemic, but the only problem is I wasn't always like this, it started pretty suddenly about 3 years ago. I have had the liver/pancreas/thyroid tested & apparently its all normal besides the too much insulin, so idk, I was hoping the docs would figure it out [emoji53]
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My understanding was that reseting an infected router would cause the bot to "phone home". By watching the amount of network traffic they could determine where home was.
Yeah fios is the same, when I had fios I shut down all functions on their actiontek & just used it as a modem. Besides that it was not 802.11ac.A few months ago I upgraded to a much faster Internet speed. And the telephone company came out and make some changes and gave me a new DSL modem/router. And when I asked how do I access it to change the WiFi password or something. He said, oh we don't allow you to go in there. Need something changed, call the telephone company. So I've been trying from time to time to hack into the BEC8920AC. But so far all of my attempts have been futile.
We don't know the full details yet, but bc it's a 3 stage malware then I'd probably say yes. supposedly it was using photo bucket. That part is not something you can do anything about but really idk much bc I didn't have it, I used my firmware to checked cpu processes & network activity & I did not find anything suspicious. Even so, I held down the little pinswitch to reset it anyways it never hurts.
Which btw does anyone find it strange this level of sophistication in a malware targeted at consumer routers, somebody put a ton of time into this, but it's a bit overkill, it's so over the top that it could have never escaped notice for very long & if the Russians actually are responsible for this they would have to know that. Normally this is the type of thing used at the government or corporate level for a one & done. To me it seems more like a troll saying hey, look what I can do, that's not to say Russia isn't the troll but I still find it strange.
Tbh though I don't think most people will even reset their router's. I did my dad's for him but my mom is in Delaware & doesn't even know what a router is. The fact the news is saying to just unplug & plug back in does not help.
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Depends on the squonk box. Non adjustable 510's should never leak into the interior. Some adjustable 510's leak in but high quality ones with tight fitting insulators usually don't. If I buy a new squonk box and it leaks I just spin up a custom insulator on the lathe and that fixes it.
ETA: Whoops, misread your question. Yes, juice inside the 510 is normal. It can be a problem if switching attys regularly, especially using TC. I have dedicated attys for each of my 6 squonkers to alleviate the problem. The only time I remove the atty is when I rewick or rebuild and then I clean everything up.
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Been feeling good the last five days, I'll enjoy it while it lasts.
Meanwhile, got a call from the doctor's office about the blood tests they did over a week ago, my red blood cell count was/is (at least at that time) too low so I have to have another draw done for a different test. At this rate they may figure out whats going on before summer is over. I may have just gotten over it by now, or if it's something serious, by the time they figure it out it may be too late.... They didn't suggest it even though I told them I've been feeling better, but I'm going to call them and ask them to recheck the red cell count again to make sure it wasn't something that passed on it's own, I mean some time has passed....
Meanwhile, got a call from the doctor's office about the blood tests they did over a week ago, my red blood cell count was/is (at least at that time) too low so I have to have another draw done for a different test. At this rate they may figure out whats going on before summer is over. I may have just gotten over it by now, or if it's something serious, by the time they figure it out it may be too late.... They didn't suggest it even though I told them I've been feeling better, but I'm going to call them and ask them to recheck the red cell count again to make sure it wasn't something that passed on it's own, I mean some time has passed....
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Well I hope it turns out that there is nothing to worry about Willy and that you find out real soon. And I don't like all of the tests they run either. But without the tests, they really don't know what is the real problem is.
Man getting older is getting tougher and tougher. Even before I knew anything about the 75C and 250C, I've seen many screenshots had used the DJLsb Vapes Theme. I saw it so often, I thought it was the default Evolv theme. 
It probably should have been, since it was so popular.
Anyway I had created my own DNA200 themes before. Nothing seemed difficult to me at all except the graphics. Which is a bit strange to me since I used to write my own computer games on a Commodore and Timex computers. The one graphic I wanted that simply kicked my .... was the Mad Hatter graphic (it's a smiling skeleton head wearing a top hat). As I got it looking good on the computer screen, but when I sent it to the DNA, it looked like some sort of star chart or something.
Anyway I tried the DJLsb Vapes Theme which doesn't have Replay. And I thought sure I could get it to work. I did, but only if EScribe was connected to save and cancel. As there was nothing like that in the theme itself. And I thought piece of cake, just add that ability to the theme and it is all good. And while I never worked with 75C/250C themes before, I thought how hard can it be?
Geez!!! Nothing looks familiar. Hidden invisible boxes and boxes inside of boxes. And an editing panel that looks more like it's a Star Trek Control Panel. And dozens of label names that sounds all Greek to me. I could just hear Spock saying: "I highly advice you to not touch anything!"
Well I thought maybe I could quickly learn this Greek stuff. So I started to take one theme apart to see if I could put it back together again. Yeah I couldn't get it back together too well. Used a lot of duct tape and a lot of hammering and it just wasn't the same. So I decided this isn't going to turn out to be a 2 minute job like I thought. Maybe I could learn a shortcut to this problem online.
So I looked and it appears many others had the same idea and working on the same problem. And some savior did the leg work and uploaded a DJLsb Theme with Replay. Perfect! Maybe someday I'll be able to figure out how simple it really was.
It probably should have been, since it was so popular.Anyway I had created my own DNA200 themes before. Nothing seemed difficult to me at all except the graphics. Which is a bit strange to me since I used to write my own computer games on a Commodore and Timex computers. The one graphic I wanted that simply kicked my .... was the Mad Hatter graphic (it's a smiling skeleton head wearing a top hat). As I got it looking good on the computer screen, but when I sent it to the DNA, it looked like some sort of star chart or something.
Anyway I tried the DJLsb Vapes Theme which doesn't have Replay. And I thought sure I could get it to work. I did, but only if EScribe was connected to save and cancel. As there was nothing like that in the theme itself. And I thought piece of cake, just add that ability to the theme and it is all good. And while I never worked with 75C/250C themes before, I thought how hard can it be?
Geez!!! Nothing looks familiar. Hidden invisible boxes and boxes inside of boxes. And an editing panel that looks more like it's a Star Trek Control Panel. And dozens of label names that sounds all Greek to me. I could just hear Spock saying: "I highly advice you to not touch anything!"
Well I thought maybe I could quickly learn this Greek stuff. So I started to take one theme apart to see if I could put it back together again. Yeah I couldn't get it back together too well. Used a lot of duct tape and a lot of hammering and it just wasn't the same. So I decided this isn't going to turn out to be a 2 minute job like I thought. Maybe I could learn a shortcut to this problem online.
So I looked and it appears many others had the same idea and working on the same problem. And some savior did the leg work and uploaded a DJLsb Theme with Replay. Perfect! Maybe someday I'll be able to figure out how simple it really was.
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