suggestions for new firmware R8000P

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mouthman wrote:

 

Why is this about my knowledge?

It is about my knowledge. I am tryimg to understand how this intruder gets into your system.

 

My questions are designed to home in on the weak points in Netgear's firmware. Unfortunately, I can't see any step-by-step instructions that would let me to do that.

 

As I said earlier, you are pretty well the only person who has turned up here with this as a big issue. (Perhaps you can point me at the messages I have missed from people who share your concerns.)

 

In the past, such intrusions have been easily blocked by simply following the usual advice on setting up secure passwords and usernames.

 

No one can get into your router's settings if you have a secure password. Unless you have enabled "remote management" an invader has to be on your own local network to get in. (See Set Up Remote Management in the manual.)

 

Similarly, getting on through the wifi is incredibly difficult, and there are ways to make it even harder. (Turn off the SSID broadcast, for example.)

 

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mouthman wrote:

Can we get back ontopic? Update the firmware so someone can't get onto my network when I block him or her.

 

 

That is already implemented, unless you can explain to the Netgear techies how it doesn't work for you. They need those step-by-step details before they can do more.

 

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mouthman wrote:

Oh yeah and I can't find a way to change the admin username, I can change the password, but I can't change the admin username... good point for a firmware update

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That one comes up every month or so, even though it brings minimal benefits beyond giving users a warm glow. (See above.) It may be something that exists on newer devices, but the chances of Netgear changing how it works on the hundreds of old devices are small.

 

Feel free to post it in the place reserved for that very purpose:

 

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