Megacable: a bit of a warning (somewhat technical)

[Victor David]

You are referring to the router's inner-facing IP address when you mention ipconfig. That's a different story. Of course all routers are accessible by their IP addresses (plural), their inner-facing one and their outer-facing one. And yes, the manufacturer's default passwords are easily known.

However, it a massive security glitch to have the router's admin program available to the outer-facing interface, i.e. the internet. I tend to agree that they probably couldn't access my PC, but still I wonder why someone from the Ukraine wants to enter into my router's admin program.

This particular router has a mirror feature, where all traffic can be duplicated and sent to another destination. If an attacker were to enable that, they'd be able to catch a lot of what you were doing. Not good.

So, I'm just saying that if you get service from Megacable, it would be a good idea to disable the ability to access the admin program from the internet side. And yes, I did do a factory reset as you suggested - and then re-applied my custom settings - because I didn't know what might have been changed.