So, I've had an Apple Router for some time now and has always met my needs. Well the WIFI has been flaky as of late so I went out and purchased a Linksys 1900ACS router. I installed the new Linksys router. I then went to GRC.com and ran the port scans to see how it looked and it reported everything Stealth except for an open port 80. So I checked on my mobile phone, with WIFI disabled and not yet configured for the new network, and sure enough when I put in my WAN IP I get my security camera login page. I went thoroughly through the software and nothing was in there (remote administration) that I could see that would need port 80. I called Linksys and said WTF? After going off to the manager multiple times the woman told me that Port 80 is open by default and I need it for web traffic. At this point I was getting ###### and said I need it but not for inbound I don't. She proceeded to go back to her manager and finally ended it with there was nothing they could do and that port 80 is open by design. WTF???? Am I missing something here guys? No other router I have ever owned has come back with an open port 80 on GRC. When I wanted to view my cameras in the past I had to setup port forwarding on my router. Looks like I will need to finish my PFSense box. I am blown away right now. I must be missing something because I don't see any posts about this and I know other people would surely have complained about this.
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So, I've had an Apple Router for some time now and has always met my needs. Well the WIFI has been flaky as of late so I went out and purchased a Linksys 1900ACS router. I installed the new Linksys router. I then went to GRC.com and ran the port scans to see how it looked and it reported everything Stealth except for an open port 80. So I checked on my mobile phone, with WIFI disabled and not yet configured for the new network, and sure enough when I put in my WAN IP I get my security camera login page. I went thoroughly through the software and nothing was in there (remote administration) that I could see that would need port 80. I called Linksys and said WTF? After going off to the manager multiple times the woman told me that Port 80 is open by default and I need it for web traffic. At this point I was getting ###### and said I need it but not for inbound I don't. She proceeded to go back to her manager and finally ended it with there was nothing they could do and that port 80 is open by design. WTF???? Am I missing something here guys? No other router I have ever owned has come back with an open port 80 on GRC. When I wanted to view my cameras in the past I had to setup port forwarding on my router. Looks like I will need to finish my PFSense box. I am blown away right now. I must be missing something because I don't see any posts about this and I know other people would surely have complained about this.
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