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Finally, my streamyx broadband connection for home has been activated! Out of my wish list, I have applied streamyx broadband since last week. After 3 working days (total of 6 days), it was just activated after I called up TM yesterday night!

Actually, I have called up TM 3 times before it activated successfully. First time and second time was the ADSL line not stable. After that they fixed the jumper and call me back to test. Once the ADSL line looks stable, I call the third time to activate my account.

Why Apply for home?

Maybe you cannot imagine why I only apply for a broadband at home after 7 months of blogging Since now I have 2 bloggers at home my wife and I, broadband can save our time and a lot of work. We can save money to pay for cyber cafe or slow yet expensive 56k dial up connection.

The second reason why I think should apply a broadband because I can write post even at home, holiday or sick. So convenient. I believe with this broadband, we can connect to our family members easily without hassle. Third reason, of course its also because I have withdraw my money from Adsense earning! I think the money should be enough to pay 1 year broadband fees for me.

ADSL Modem settings

I would like to thank Joshua for selling me the ADSL modem with cheapest price. Although it is not famous brand, but it has all features that I want such as DDNS, Firewall, and Router.

Instead of using manual broadband dial up method, I have set up my ADSL modem router to dial automatically. This means I have to save my streamyx user account and password inside the ADSL modem. There are a few security concern that I want to highlight here:

1. SNMP - Turn off this protocol or change the community string name to something else instead of “public”. SNMP is a dangerous protocol that expose your network to hacker’s scanning tools.

2. Do not use bank account password in your modem. Remember, no matter how long or how strong is your password, your modem’s basic firewall function can’t stop a professional hacker. Hacker might use these account and try on your bank’s.

3. Change default IP range - Change the default IP 192.168.1.254 to something else. Of course change for your computer too. Different IP range harden your network protection.

Have you did the modem settings? Please tell us what you have done to protect your house network?

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