I tried the IHA (In Home Agent) yesterday. One of the notifications that I have is that I need to set the password on my router. I have already done so. Just to get rid of the notification, I clicked on the link to set my router password. It did set the password to a new password.
In my dealings with the Westell router... It asks that I set the password when it's initially set up - so I set it. Then after that, I must enter a password to do anything at all in the settings. Now this IHA things tells me to set the password. The password is already ser to a value that the IHA doesn't know about, yet it sets it again to a new value.
I asked tech support how can the IHA do this. The router itself denies me changing anything until I first enter the password. The tech 'specialist' says that 'somehow', it knows the old password even though I never told the IHA what the existing password was.
I summary, security for the router is non-existant! Somehow, Verison gets in and monkeys with the settings of the router without even knowing the password. So Verizon has a back door in the router that they are no telling us about. This is pretty bad and only shows how little security our PCs have when attached to the router.
For extra security, I place all my PCs behind another personal firewall so as to protect it from the non-existent security of this Westell router the Verizon supplies.
Verizon can do whatever the hell they want to the STBs and the Westell piece of junk. But they can't get into my LAN by usurping this so-called security provided by the Verizon supplied router.
