The admin passwords aren’t standard with BT they are like a random string of numbers and letters upper and lower case.
Plus the passwords are decently strong. I have also made 18 character long passwords with number letter upper lower case symbol combinations. And yet still nothing. It’s just constant. If I thought I’d miss something I’d hold my hands up and say my fault. I’ve been so careful. This has been on going for 7 months the day I moved into the house.

What a coincidence... About a week ago we were talking about port 0 exploits in the FreeBSD forums. Here's how I deal with it in pf (OpenBSD packet filter firewall), and have had a rule to do so since Win98:

I use the same rule in OpenBSD and FreeBSD.

When I switched to cable I didn't get a router with the package so I ran by FreeBSD and OpenBSD boxen directly facing the internet for months. No sweat. I live in a large apartment complex and would no sooner use wi-fi than leave my front door unlocked when I went to bed.

You, my friend, need a router at the bare minimum, an Ethernet LAN preferably IMO, and if you have a spare machine with 2 network cards I recommend pfSense as a router/firewall solution. I ran one for a couple years and was very happy with it. There is a learning curve to it though.

When I first got a BT Hub, I found out that one of their millions of hotspots, was my router!
I contacted them & had them close that access!

This should shed some light on the subject. From superuser.com:

https://superuser.com/questions/5563...eredo-adapters

Think about what you just said here...I'm going with Dugan's theory.

*YOU* may have made a user ID with a better password, but the ADMIN passwords from whatever device they give to you are NOT that. Since they are ISP provided devices, it makes it INCREDIBLY easy to crack, since the users know what character sets to use, length, etc. And not sure what you think you're going to be able to accomplish on a Linux forum, if **YOU** are not using Linux. Nothing you've described (like getting ad pages, etc.), would indicate that you're 'hacked', that Linux (much less Kali) was used to perform this 'hack', nor that your neighbor is guilty of anything more than unauthorized use of your wifi. When you throw in the police call for harassment, it seems to indicate a larger issue.

Best advice? Get a separate home wifi access point with strong security, plug it into your BT supplied router and turn OFF the BT supplied Wifi. I use the Google Wifi router at home, and its excellent, but there are many similar devices with good security as well. Hiding your SSID isn't a bad thing either.

You’ll have to dumb it down for me lol. Not used to all the acronyms.

Right bear in mind I just literally got Ubuntu installed last week. Can you expand in lamens terms for me about the pf.


Can you talk me through the process of using that block at a more newbie level please. I am using Ethernet for some stuff is that more secure. I’m starting to think this learning curve is going to be expensive lol. What is pfSense. I have a couple of old ISP HOMEHUBS (routers) but they are just standard. Would linking them up help??

Thanks for the advice

I am not the guy to tell you how to set up Linux.

I've ran a Debian box not so long ago and used ufw, Uncomplicated Firewall. If you google it you can find the syntax and should be able to make a rule for port 0. It's not hard to set rules once you see how its done.

You're probably better off sticking with a commercial router/firewall than pfSense. It uses the OpenBSD pf packet filter firewall but takes some getting used to and you have enough on your plate already.

Ethernet is what I consider most secure.


BTW, this is how I got started, too. ;)

Wow really you sound like a pro lol.

To me anyway.

I don’t mean to be funny but if you don’t ask for help when your stuck how are you supposed to get better. I’m sure I’ll pick it up in no time. I liked the look of Ubuntu. So I went with that just bought myself a book now to start with the basics. Going to take some classes on Lynda.com and do some research on the web. Have no idea what I’m doing haha.

If you don’t ask you don’t get right ?

I see if I can make head or tail of what your talking about but I will be googling how to block a port forward at port 0.
Am I on the right track. I knew I should of done computer science and not maths haha !!!

Tell me a bit about what freebsd and openbsd is and what the difference is. I can’t quite wrap my head around it. Is it another Linux distro?

No. I'm just some guy sitting at home with 7 laptops running BSD.


I read. A lot. Incessantly and obsessively for 2 years or so. The best way to know how to defend yourself from exploit is to know how they are carried out.


FreeBSD and OpenBSD are not Linux distros. They can trace their roots back to UNIX proper. Think Gentoo as far as setting up FreeBSD. You start with the base system and a terminal and build your 3rd party apps and GUI from there. If you look in my profile I have a link to my site with a tutorial on how to set up a FreeBSD desktop from scratch.

You're honestly better off at this point sticking with Linux.

Wow I’ll deffo check it out is it okay if I add you?

maybe if there was a better description of what "BT 6A" is, we could get more and better feedback?
is it some sort of router distributed by british telecom?

Yeah that’s all I can give you sorry. It’s a standard one from the ISP.

Many newer BT routers reserve a portion of their potential bandwidth for public access. It is part of your agreement when you signed up for their service. The public access portion uses a different SSID and is isolated from the private side.
It is the way that BT attempt to supply their full public WIFI service.