Reply to post: Not <i>that</i> bad

Virgin Media router security flap follows weak password expose

Baldrickk

Not <i>that</i> bad

There seems to be a lot of complaining, lets break it down:

Weak (short) default password - bad - potentially 'easy' to crack

Solution exists? - yes (change it)

Weak admin password (changeme) - bad - if you are on the network and it hasn't been changed, you can get admin access

Solution exists? - yes (change it - it even tells you too!)

So... standard procedure is to change both.

What other problems have people complained about?

Poor wifi? not in my experience, 2 floors away and still getting near max throughput over Wifi - Steam home streaming at 1080p at that range works even better than I expected, odd dropped packet, but nothing really noticable, maybe one 'glitch' every 5 minutes. and running Cat 6 all the way up the stairs did nothing to improve the latency. Network benchmarks show that wireless transfer operates at near max data rates too over the same connection. No problems there for me.

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