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FritzGman
Aspirant
Jan 23, 2021
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SECURITY HOLE BUILT-IN? (RAX35v2)

Bought this Walmart special router on sale to give WiFi 6 a try after getting an Intel AX200 card and I've had nothing but a bad experience. 1) My Netgear R6300v2 router was more stable and consis...
  • schumaku's avatar
    schumaku
    Jan 23, 2021
    FritzGman wrote:

    2) I can't find a way to turn off PORT 80 on the WAN side of the router! Seriously Netgear? Port 80 on my ISP DHCP assigned address???

    Just in case - the WAN/Internet port can behave different if you are accessing the public IP from the LAN (internal) side than from outside.

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antinode
Guru
Jan 23, 2021

> [...] My router is exposed to the internet over port 80 AND I CAN'T
> FIND A WAY TO TURN IT OFF. [...]

 

   Where, exactly, is the web browser where are you doing this?   Some
computer/device on your LAN?  Have you tried doing it _really_ from
"the WAN side of the router"?

 

> [...] does this look safe to anyone?

 

   I can't (yet) see your picture.  In-line images must be approved by a
moderator before others can see them.  The time required varies.
Attachments have no such limitation.  Of course, attachments have their
own one-per-message limitation.