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jaytothehizo's avatar
jaytothehizo
Aspirant
Oct 08, 2019
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Nighthawk R7000 changed its ssid on its own

Hi, so internet connection went offline, i rebooted and it was still offline so then logged in to admin to see what is going on and noticed my ssid had changed from Netgear to Neatgear. Then connection went back online and I changed back the ssid to what it was but i am mystified as to what might have caused it. Can anyone be so kind to shed some light on the matter? Thanks in advance.

  • antinode's avatar
    antinode
    Dec 07, 2019

    > [...] would it be possible [...]

     

       Not likely.  And, if you did break in, and wanted to collect secrets,
    then why show off by changing wireless-network credentials, which gains
    nothing but attention?

     

    > [...] I noticed there is a firmware update today [...]

     

       The previous three have not gotten universally good reviews here.

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    • antinode's avatar
      antinode
      Guru
      Dec 06, 2019

      > Some 'community' [...]

       

         Would you have been better pleased by a dozen responses, all of which
      said, "I don't know"?

       

         The most likely explanation might be that someone changed it.


      > [...] I changed back the ssid to what it was [...]

       

         If I thought that one of my router's settings had changed
      spontaneously, then I might do a settings reset, and then reconfigure

      the thing, either manually, or from a trusted saved-settings file.  If
      one obvious setting changed, then why trust the less obvious ones?

      • jaytothehizo's avatar
        jaytothehizo
        Aspirant
        Dec 06, 2019

        Thanks for replying. I forgot to mention that I did a hard reset directly after that, reconfigured everything and changed both the wifi and admin passwords.

         

        My question to you sensei is: would it be possible for a device I haven't allowed on my network to bypass the password and the extra layer of access control denial and then snoop on my admin login to gain admin access to the router?

         

        By the way, I noticed there is a firmware update today to my router with release note fixing bug that was causing typos in the GUI, don't know if it has anything to with the matter. Thanks again.