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skC3700-10
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Jun 12, 2018
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C3700-100NAS Router forwarding my traffic to Africa IP when my or my wife's cell phone connects

Greetings,   I think I have a serious security breach, but I can't figure out if its the router or our i-phone's that are infected.  I'm thinking more towards the router, because I have attached ...
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  • jg121234's avatar
    jg121234
    Jun 14, 2018

    That is so strange.  I'm out of ideas on this one.  As a work-around you can set the IP address on the phone to manual instead of DHCP under WIFI settings.  You would need to do this for 2.4G and 5G if you connect to both.

    Set the IP address to something like 192.168.0.150 

    Set the Gateway address to 192.168.1.1

    Set the DNS address to 192.168.1.1 for the primary and 8.8.8.8 for the backup.

    Obviously this is just a workaround and not a real solution to what is going on...