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I finally checked my router settings after a neighbor's kid knocked on my door at 11pm, and yeah, I was the problem
I run a small pest control shop out of my house in Mesa, and for about two years I had my router set up with the default admin password because I figured nobody within range would bother. Then a 14 year old from two doors down knocked on my door at 11pm last Tuesday to tell me he could see my network name and that his tablet auto-connected to it, which meant it had no password at all. I logged in and found 7 unknown devices, a guest network I never turned on, and remote admin enabled from the factory. Took me 20 minutes to fix, but I still feel like an idiot. If you have not logged into your router since you got it, what did you find sitting in there?
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phoenixpalmer8d ago
The "no password at all" part got me because that's exactly what I found when I finally checked mine, plus some neighbor's printer showing up as a device. What worked for me was just writing the new password on a sticky note and taping it inside the router box, sounds dumb but I actually remember it now.
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