Re: Re: SBC routinely installing 2Wire 400 mW AP/FW

John Foust wrote:
> A follow-up to my January posting about SBC's use of the
> 2Wire HomePortal HW1000, a 400 mW firewall / access point / DSL modem.
> 
> A new tenant moved into a building two doors down from 
> my office.  He was having other computer troubles, so I helped
> him out.  He has SBC DSL.  I asked him if he took them up
> on their "get a free wireless AP" sign-up offer; he said "no".
> 
> [...]
> 
> Later in the day his office was open.  Sure enough, inside,
> MiniStumbler says SNR 83, -28.  I jump into the web interface 
> of the modem and dig around until I find the wireless 
> interface's "disable" button.  
> 
> It's a good thing there's a disable button.  He explicitly
> didn't want wireless and it made for a crappy day of debugging
> for me.

Great.  In effect, SBC is sending out DSL routers with transmitters 
turned on polluting the spectrum, when in fact, some clients are not 
even using the devices.  Just what we need...

Tim
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