The makers of home network gear are starting to give older routers the ability to auto-update their firmware. But depending on when that update occurs, it may not be a good thing. At least once a week ...

Right, so. I just bought me a Linksys WRTGL to keep the possibility of third-party firmware open. I checked out the various sites for OpenWRT, HyperWRT, and DD-WRT and one common theme was a pretty ...

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So hopefully, this isn't too specific to just my router firmware. But I got a new modem, DOCSIS 3.1. Called Spectrum and gave them the Mac Address, verified that be default I should be getting ~600 ...

This being Computerworld, the number of readers who update the firmware in their router is probably high. But, I suspect very few non-techies keep their firmware current, or even know that the ...