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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...
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    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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schumaku
Guru - Experienced User
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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FritzGman
Aspirant
Jan 23, 2021

I have some learning to do.  Browsing from the home network was the issue that made it "look like" port 80 was open.

 

I used Shodan.io to scan my ISP assigned IP address from my home and office networks.  Both show port 80 as open.  However, an NMAP scan does NOT show it open from the office network and I was unable to load the Router's login prompt.  Internally on my home network, it shows it as open and navigating to my ISP assigned IP address loads the login prompt and the Reset Password screen of the router. 

 

Not sure why Shodan.io shows port 80 as open when it is not but at least I can confirm it now.  So, I am not worried about ports being open externally anymore but the performance issues continue. 

 

Thanks for the feedback and hint on what I was doing wrong.