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   Good ${greeting_time}, Jay!   
      
   22 Oct 2021 17:22:06, you wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:   
      
    Mv>> Very odd. A normal reboot would not do that, only a factoy reset.   
    Mv>> ISPs can initiate both, and a reboot is not all that strange, but   
    Mv>> a factory reset would not normally be done by an ISP.   
    JH> My Mom has a fiber-to-the-house connection with symmetrical gigabit   
    JH> speeds at her house (which isn't available here, and I'm totally not   
    JH> jealous) from her local power company.   
    JH> The box they provide her (which is also her wifi router) "factory   
    JH> resets" every time there is a power outage. When she first got the   
    JH> connection she was using the default wifi SSID which was a prefix   
    JH> and the mac-address of the router, along with a super long and   
    JH> complicated password.   
      
   And, most likely, WPS turned on. If that's the case, it's very dangerous.   
      
    JH> I made it more simple for them by making the wifi name more personal   
    JH> to them and giving them a memorable passphrase instead of that   
    JH> complicated password, sure enough the next time the power went out it   
    JH> reverted back to factory settings. "No big deal" I thought, I just   
    JH> set their box to bridge mode and added my own wifi box and set her up   
    JH> that way.   
      
   When you need a bridge, you may like to use a simple media converter.   
   https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001709518778.html could be a good start   
   (requires the SFP module complimentary to those your ISP uses). Small combo   
   switch is also ok if you know how to configure 802.1q VLANs there.   
      
   Once you have the link, set up the hardware you'd use as a server / router /   
   whatever. Inexpensive RPi4 with 4 or 8 Gb RAM would be a wise choise for the   
   nearest 5...10 years.   
      
   If you need WiFi, you may buy a cheap Ralink RT5370 dongle and use hostapd:   
      
   % cat /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf   
   interface=wlan0   
   driver=nl80211   
   bridge=wifi   
   logger_syslog=-1   
   logger_syslog_level=2   
   logger_stdout=-1   
   logger_stdout_level=1   
   ctrl_interface_group=wheel   
   country_code=RU   
   hw_mode=g   
   channel=11   
   beacon_int=100   
   dtim_period=2   
   max_num_sta=255   
   rts_threshold=-1   
   fragm_threshold=-1   
   macaddr_acl=0   
   auth_algs=1   
   ignore_broadcast_ssid=0   
   wmm_enabled=0   
   eapol_key_index_workaround=0   
   eap_server=0   
   wps_state=0   
   ssid=Muzenirres   
   wpa=2   
   wpa_pairwise=CCMP   
   wpa_passphrase=ds4tN3oxUzku61WD   
      
   (obviously enough, ssid and wpa_passphrase were just generated - first as a   
   pronounceable word, second as a pure 96-bit entropy wrapped in base64).   
      
      
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