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speed_phreak
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join:2006-03-31
Culver, OR
·Packet8
·Qwest.net

reply to pejacoby
Re: Who is pqwest1.qwest.motive.com? Logging onto my router!

This thread gives me a kind of ucky feeling inside...

Just one more reason to get a modem that can be put in transparent bridging mode (not sure if yours can), they can't talk to it if it doesn't have an IP address. Then you can have a real router with a real firewall.

NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC

I am pretty sure that AT&T can't talk to my SpeedStream 4100. But I am not worried about it. I have a router behind that modem. The worst that they could do is muck around with the modem settings. My LAN is still secure from their mucking, no matter what they might be able to do with the modem.

And, no, I am not worried about how they might impose some kind of port blocking, throttling or just killing the connection. They don't need modem access for any of that; all of that can be done at the DSLAM, or aggregation router.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum
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