Subj : Re: A small questionary on ISPs
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Jay Harris
Date : Fri Oct 22 2021 17:22:06

On 22 Oct 2021, Michiel van der Vlist said the following...
 
 Mv> Very odd. A normal reboot would not do that, only a factoy reset. ISPs
 Mv> can initiate both, and a reboot is not all that strange, but a factory
 Mv> reset would not normally be done by an ISP.

My Mom has a fiber-to-the-house connection with symmetrical gigabit speeds at her house (which isn't available here, and I'm totally not jealous) from her local power company.

The box they provide her (which is also her wifi router) "factory resets" every time there is a power outage.  When she first got the connection she was using the default wifi SSID which was a prefix and the mac-address of the router, along with a super long and complicated password.

I made it more simple for them by making the wifi name more personal to them and giving them a memorable passphrase instead of that complicated password, sure enough the next time the power went out it reverted back to factory settings.  "No big deal" I thought, I just set their box to bridge mode and added my own wifi box and set her up that way.

Next time I was over I noticed two wifi connections, the one I installed and the fiber modem's was back on.  A little digging showed that that box had factory reset again which meant it was no longer in bridge mode and the wifi my Mom was using is double NAT'ed.

Long story short:  She's using the box from her ISP with the settings imposed upon her from that horrible box that provides fantastic speeds.


Jay

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