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XRaySpeX
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Sun 22-Apr-12 19:43:28

Re: Hundreds of Thousands may lose internet connection

[re: gomezz] [link to this post]

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But are not Personal Computers.

Nitpick! Never said they were!

Glad you agree with the convention that upper-case "PC" is an abbrev. for lower-case "personal computer".

1999: Freeserve 48K Dial-Up => 2005: Wanadoo 1 Meg BB => 2007: Orange 2 Meg BB => 2008: Orange 8 Meg LLU => 2010: Orange 16 Meg LLU => 2011: Orange 19 Meg WBC

Deadbeat
(knowledge is power) Sun 22-Apr-12 19:50:06

Re: Hundreds of Thousands may lose internet connection

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...... But the point of these checks is that viruses infects PCs not routers.

Commonly used routers with their settings left at default have also been known to be "infected". It's worth checkinng the DNS settings and while everyone is at it, changing the default login settings to something more secure.

XRaySpeX
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Sun 22-Apr-12 19:58:01

Re: Hundreds of Thousands may lose Internet connection

[re: Deadbeat] [link to this post]

Very true!

1999: Freeserve 48K Dial-Up => 2005: Wanadoo 1 Meg BB => 2007: Orange 2 Meg BB => 2008: Orange 8 Meg LLU => 2010: Orange 16 Meg LLU => 2011: Orange 19 Meg WBC

gomezz
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Sun 22-Apr-12 21:47:57

Re: Hundreds of Thousands may lose internet connection

[re: XRaySpeX] [link to this post]

How did you reach that erroneous conclusion?

O2 Standard (8Mbps LLU)

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