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New CF customer - day 1: half way there?

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As far as I can tell there isn't any way to change the operation mode other than it being DHCP. Can't edit any the DNS servers.
That's not much use! Thanks for the warning. I'm liking @stackdell's Ubiquiti suggestions more and more.

Also, these Linksys units spend a lot of their time chatting away to lifemote_com - some sort of "cloud AI wifi analytics" firm. Yesterday alone between them they made 4439 DNS requests to it (says my pihole anyway).

EDIT - and I didn't get a call back or anything. Just a direct debit notification.
 
lso, these Linksys units spend a lot of their time chatting away to lifemote_com - some sort of "cloud AI wifi analytics" firm. Yesterday alone between them they made 4439 DNS requests to it (says my pihole anyway).

I think that could be the Linksys Remote web management feature.

Theres an option to turn off by going to "connectivity - administration and unticking remote access."

Though i could be wrong and the "lifemote_com" could be for something else.
 
There might well be some sort of connection between them, I might sniff the traffic and see if I can work it out.

The option to disable external admin access is hidden by default - is that to allow their engineering teams access I wonder?
 
I think that could be the Linksys Remote web management feature.

Theres an option to turn off by going to "connectivity - administration and unticking remote access."

Though i could be wrong and the "lifemote_com" could be for something else.
I will be wary of any calls to the mothership fronm Linksys given that they are based in Taiwan and China. In my view Linksys have gone from good to bad. First they were independent and Irvine, California, then they got bought by Cisco which is also based California but customer hostile sometimes, then Cisco sold them to Belkin (which is also based California) but overprices a lot of their products and finally Foxconn buys Belkin.
 
I will be wary of any calls to the mothership fronm Linksys given that they are based in Taiwan and China. In my view Linksys have gone from good to bad. First they were independent and Irvine, California, then they got bought by Cisco which is also based California but customer hostile sometimes, then Cisco sold them to Belkin (which is also based California) but overprices a lot of their products and finally Foxconn buys Belkin.
i felt the same way when Lenovo bought the thinkpad brand and designs from IBM.

IMO whether the company is Chinese, American or anyone else...they're all scooping up our data. Its all the same to me.
 
IMO whether the company is Chinese, American or anyone else...they're all scooping up our data. Its all the same to me.
There is no doubt about that but the difference to me is who is in control of the legal framework allowing that to happen and also whether the government can come in and ask a company for your data out of the blue without a judge approving it and what will be the impact if they are caught doing it. I don't necesarily trust American companies but I know for a fact that if they are caught doing stuff like this they will get fined and will have an impact on their bottom line. Not so sure about the same thing happening in China if it even is something you will be allowed to know.
 
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Here's the top clients from pihole ( the DHCP server) from the last 24 hours - you can see the first two which are the Linksys repeater nodes, and 0.1 is the Linksys router way down the list.

The only things those repeaters ask for is "dream.cf.lifemote.com", once a minute.
 
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