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Soleous00075
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Jan 13, 2025

EAX20 trying to connect to internet via port 8883

Hello everybody, I am currently seeing my EAX20 connecting to the internet a amazon data center via port 8883. I have currently blocked this but I am wondering why it does this? if it is sometthing to do with MQTT, what is it trying to do and do I need it? apart from checking for firmware updates whicj it can still do and I dont have it connected to any app or cloud services, what could be using this? Any help would be greatly appreciated as I cant find this answer anywhere and cant do a support ticket because Netgear only offers 3 months support.

Anyway thank you in advance.

 

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  • plemans's avatar
    plemans
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    Jan 14, 2025

    Many things connect back to amazon. these could be IoT devices that use amazons server farms, media devices, or any other number of devices that rent server capacity from amazon. Its tough to know