[ELECTRON] charges due to excess usage of Electron Club broadband

[Martin McGrath]

Do you know the model number?

On 19 December 2010 20:44, Ben Dembroski <ben at dembroski.net> wrote:

> If the router in question is my old netgear, I'm pretty sure it won't
> support anything fun like DDwrt.
>
> On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 12:29 +0000, Martin McGrath wrote:
> > I'll check out the router and firmware when I pop in on Tuesday.
> > OpenWRT/DDwrt provide the ability to cap usage based on bandwidth
> > used, other ways to lock the device down, as well as making the usage
> > stats available online (securely) and allowing remote administration.
> >
> > If the hardware is supported this may be something worth doing, though
> > I'm not sure who'd make that decision :)
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > On 19 December 2010 12:18, Clive Mitchell <bigclive1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         It's odd to even find a broadband package with a cap these
> >         days.  You
> >         could ask the provider to stop the service as soon as the cap
> >         is
> >         reached instead of letting it roll on at expense.
> >
> >         My guess is that either your WEP password has been cracked
> >         (not hard)
> >         or that more likely someone in the vicinity has simply asked
> >         and been
> >         given the password, then passed it onto friends who might be
> >         using the
> >         WiFi in nearby buildings using a suitable antenna.
> >
> >         Making sure it's on WAP2 and changing the password on a
> >         reasonably
> >         regular basis might be a good idea.
> >
> >         On 19 December 2010 11:54, Simon Yuill <simon at lipparosa.org>
> >         wrote:
> >         > I will phone our providers on Monday to check there are not
> >         more charges.
> >         > Hopefully it is just a one-off thing.
> >         >
> >         > Also changing wifi password is a good idea and checking over
> >         current
> >         > machine setups, etc.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >         --
> >         Clive Mitchell
> >
> >
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