Category: Hardware

Some posters on our forums have mentioned problems with using the BBC iPlayer from behind a BT Home Hub. The BBC has now blogged about this.

The BT Home Hub is not alone in having security problems amongst routers but is one of the more commonly used devices in the UK.

The DSL Forum is active in pushing forward a range of standards for broadband modems and routers, the latest is designed to make it easier for providers to test line performance.

Relying on any default security password or key is always dangerous. One group of people appear to have reverse engineered a way of figuring out the key for the BT Home Hub.

The Netgear DG834v3 wired and wireless routers have a firmware upgrade available that may be useful for those who find the modem drops the line more frequently than they would like.

A review of the FRITZ!Box FON WLAN 7140 router from AVM, featuring an ADSL2+ modem, 125Mbps wireless LAN and 2-port VoIP enabled PBX.

Netgear has recalled its XE103 85Mbps powerline Ethernet adaptors sold in Europe. The adaptors are designed to establish a home network over electricity cables and thus avoid running of additional Ethernet cables.

Router vulnerabilities are not new, and UPnP has often drawn criticism in this respect. GNUCitizen.org has highlighted a technique that could result in computers using almost any OS being vulnerable.

The effects that one lightning strike can have is shown in an article on Dartmouth Today.

Many set-top boxes that connect up to broadband are linked to a specific broadband provider. The new Babel TV is provider agnostic and is a cross between a PVR and a PC.