Because these routers went out to everybody. Tech heads and idiots alike. It is far easier for ISPs to simply remote in than rely on the consumer who may be an idiot.
Yup. I used to think it was malicious by the ISPs but really it’s just all the end technology is kinda A mess for them to have control of the network for you. Which I’m gonna be honest 99.9% of customers NEED. lol
agreed my local area isp switched to calix for most of our customers and it’s really nice just to have a management interface to all of our customers and be able to fix it without having to roll a truck
Why is the default setting to enable remote administration?
Because these routers went out to everybody. Tech heads and idiots alike. It is far easier for ISPs to simply remote in than rely on the consumer who may be an idiot.
This is why I run my own router. I’m sure my cable modem has a way in but then you’d have to get past my router.
Ditto. I went one step further and put OpenWRT on mine.
Messed up thing is, some ISPs make it an absolute bitch to make this work.
Yup. I used to think it was malicious by the ISPs but really it’s just all the end technology is kinda A mess for them to have control of the network for you. Which I’m gonna be honest 99.9% of customers NEED. lol
agreed my local area isp switched to calix for most of our customers and it’s really nice just to have a management interface to all of our customers and be able to fix it without having to roll a truck