06-05-2024, 04:57 PM
This post was last modified 06-05-2024, 04:59 PM by l0st.
Edit Reason: Added info
I suspect there are more exploits going on that haven't been announced yet. My ISP hands out modem/routers with the subscription. A couple weeks back my modem randomly dropped offline mid afternoon. I was pretty busy so I just tethered my phone and kept working. Later on, when I called in to troubleshoot, they spent virtually no time troubleshooting like they already knew there was a problem and pretty much immediately ordered a replacement. I was shocked because my experience with cable cos is that it's pretty much always an uphill battle.
My modem was rebooting repeatedly and not in the normal looking for signal way. It would get about 10 seconds into the process then immediately crash and reboot over and over. FWIW, my modem is "Hitech" branded, which is not one of the supposedly affected models.The tech on the phone didn't say anything, but it sounded like this was about the 8000th modem replacement he ordered that day.
At any rate, all I did was replace it and it was fixed, so no actual outage or service issue per se. It will be interesting to see if there is a new hack reported in the coming weeks.
Edit to add:
I used an older Arris I had laying around in the interim. No issues with it.
My modem was rebooting repeatedly and not in the normal looking for signal way. It would get about 10 seconds into the process then immediately crash and reboot over and over. FWIW, my modem is "Hitech" branded, which is not one of the supposedly affected models.The tech on the phone didn't say anything, but it sounded like this was about the 8000th modem replacement he ordered that day.
At any rate, all I did was replace it and it was fixed, so no actual outage or service issue per se. It will be interesting to see if there is a new hack reported in the coming weeks.
Edit to add:
I used an older Arris I had laying around in the interim. No issues with it.
