is frying a router an urban legend as like someone hacking your router

[Pwnd_Warrior]

is frying a router an urban legend as like someone hacking your router

[iamdarkyoshi]

I've had various networking gear die on me, all due to temperatures.

 

Add a fan to cool the innards of your consumer grade stuff and they should last a while longer.

 

Cooling my gigabit network switch I found in the junk pile at my dads work managed to make it stable again

[Pwnd_Warrior]

1 minute ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

I've had various networking gear die on me, all due to temperatures.

 

Add a fan to cool the innards of your consumer grade stuff and they should last a while longer.

 

Cooling my gigabit network switch I found in the junk pile at my dads work managed to make it stable again

i mean as in someone hacking your router

[spellmanuk]

go and google wardriving 

[Curious Pineapple]

10 minutes ago, Pwnd_Warrior said:

i mean as in someone hacking your router

Can always flash bad firmware to an unsecured router, that will likely kill it unless it has a boot ROM for recovery that can't be flashed over.

[Pwnd_Warrior]

1 minute ago, Curious Pineapple said:

Can always flash bad firmware to an unsecured router, that will likely kill it unless it has a boot ROM for recovery that can't be flashed over.

but im saying can it overload the router and break it

[Pwnd_Warrior]

btw this guy over the internet said he was gonna get a guy to fry my router

 

[Curious Pineapple]

1 minute ago, Pwnd_Warrior said:

btw this guy over the internet said he was gonna get a guy to fry my router

 

If you are worried then restart it. That should give you a fresh IP address if someone managed to get hold of yours, but the most they could really do is flood your connection unless you have an open and un-secured router.

[Pwnd_Warrior]

1 minute ago, Curious Pineapple said:

If you are worried then restart it. That should give you a fresh IP address if someone managed to get hold of yours, but the most they could really do is flood your connection unless you have an open and un-secured router.

btw right now im using a vpn can anyone find my ip even if im using a vpn

 

[dalekphalm]

1 hour ago, Pwnd_Warrior said:

but im saying can it overload the router and break it

They won't be able to physically destroy the chips. But if they get root access to your router, they could flash bad firmware which could brick the router.

 

Some routers can recover from a bad firmware flash. Others cannot. Depends on the model.