By default they use WEP protection, and I'll bet 99.9% of them are still set to WEP.
Somehow I mistrusted my Home hub, it's always sat in the box whilst I use my previous router.
But the Internet here is 100% useless anyway, with AOL it constantly drops out from 1.1Mbps, and with BT it runs stable at a mind bending 300kbps. And it costs £60 for an engineer to turn up and declare everything to be fine.
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It's no secret that the home hub is insecure.
By default they use WEP protection, and I'll bet 99.9% of them are still set to WEP.
Somehow I mistrusted my Home hub, it's always sat in the box whilst I use my previous router.
But the Internet here is 100% useless anyway, with AOL it constantly drops out from 1.1Mbps, and with BT it runs stable at a mind bending 300kbps. And it costs £60 for an engineer to turn up and declare everything to be fine.