<story><title>Because Everyone (Still) Needs a Router</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/because-everyone-still-needs-a-router.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>orbitingpluto</author><text>Running Linux?&lt;p&gt;Avoid any ASUS routers unless you&apos;re flashing a new firmware. Awful experience. My last one was the N15. It wouldn&apos;t even give out a DHCP lease to two different computers and four different NICs.&lt;p&gt;And, as for:&lt;p&gt;&quot;Ever sat in an internet shop, a hotel room or lobby, a local hotspot, and wondered why you can&apos;t access your email? Unknown to you, the guy in the next room or at the next table is hogging the internet bandwidth to download the Lord Of The Rings Special Extended Edition in 1080p HDTV format.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Nmap is your friend. Find the offending port and flood it. Since the local connection is always quicker than the Internet connection, it&apos;s easy to do. I&apos;ve done this countless times, and only to those torrenting. At one cafe I use to frequent I would just start scanning whenever this one guy came in. I wonder if he ever developed a negative Pavlovian response to seeing me at the cafe and his torrenting success.&lt;p&gt;Do I feel guilty about basically DoS? Really, no. If someone tries to take control of a limited resource... shit is going to happen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggy2011</author><text>They are probably not trying to &quot;take control of a limited resource&quot;. Most people don&apos;t think of bandwidth in that way.&lt;p&gt;I sometimes use the shared wifi on trains and overhear people who are confused as to why they can view webpages but 1080p video doesn&apos;t seem to stream very well.</text></comment>
<story><title>Because Everyone (Still) Needs a Router</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/because-everyone-still-needs-a-router.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>orbitingpluto</author><text>Running Linux?&lt;p&gt;Avoid any ASUS routers unless you&apos;re flashing a new firmware. Awful experience. My last one was the N15. It wouldn&apos;t even give out a DHCP lease to two different computers and four different NICs.&lt;p&gt;And, as for:&lt;p&gt;&quot;Ever sat in an internet shop, a hotel room or lobby, a local hotspot, and wondered why you can&apos;t access your email? Unknown to you, the guy in the next room or at the next table is hogging the internet bandwidth to download the Lord Of The Rings Special Extended Edition in 1080p HDTV format.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Nmap is your friend. Find the offending port and flood it. Since the local connection is always quicker than the Internet connection, it&apos;s easy to do. I&apos;ve done this countless times, and only to those torrenting. At one cafe I use to frequent I would just start scanning whenever this one guy came in. I wonder if he ever developed a negative Pavlovian response to seeing me at the cafe and his torrenting success.&lt;p&gt;Do I feel guilty about basically DoS? Really, no. If someone tries to take control of a limited resource... shit is going to happen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awakeasleep</author><text>Can you explain any more about how this works?&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m assuming you find someone with a high random port open, but I have no idea where to go from there.&lt;p&gt;How would you go about flooding that connection? Are you relying on a card in passive mode to gather data and replay it? What do you use to replay?</text></comment>