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NGDiracDeBrogli
Aspirant
Oct 11, 2011

WNDR3800 firmware bugs/mess??

Hi, The router starts off with no WLAN signals. So the 2.4GHz en 5GHz signals are off. After logging into the router (routerlogin.net in browser (IE, Opera, Mozilla) ) I then try to switch on th...
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NGDiracDeBrogli
Aspirant
Oct 12, 2011
jmizoguchi wrote:
it will time out in 60sec so someone has to be lucky enough see that and without PIN it will not connect so , if nothing happens it will no initiate after the time out


I've done the test. No way the Led indicator of the WPS button goes out after 60 seconds, it just stays on for hours on end. So there is a security issues if somebody just by accident hits the WPS button on the front panel of the router.

So I'm still in the opinion that it would be very wise, and smart, and nice, and customer friendly, and .... if the firmware developers working on v10019Beta could introduce a tick-box called /Enable WPS/, or something similar.

J