I discovered that too.prehistoric wrote:cable support personnel are not entirely dependable from a security standpoint.
We 4 families in my apartment have taken one wired connection. Which is then distributed each home form 4 eth ports on the router/modem, it's wifi function is disabled.
I was surprised to see the guy who setup the system didn't change password of that router. It was still the default 'admin'.
Now I am no expert when it comes to security but that's basic.
Anyone could have connected his eth cable and switched on wifi, then off he goes. We could have only seen it if we had looked at it in router settings.
My building has 8 other families, although they won't do that but it's easy if someone wants to.
Although I can't blame him alone, when I told this to other 3, they were clue less too.