Question about security
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I have been trying to get my upload ratio back up the last few days and I am very close now to what I need, but today the guy I rent with told me he just got netgear genie setup on his phone, and computer so he can easily add people to the network, but he also said he can see traffic. When he says that does me mean he can see browsing history + anything I am seeding? If anyone uses netgear genie please let me know what all you see with that. I dont want to get trouble heh..
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he also said he can see traffic
The Netgear genie is capable of measuring not monitoring network traffic, through the program's Traffic Meter. The Traffic Meter measures the amount of Internet traffic for today, yesterday, this week, this month, or last month. Each time period measured includes data for connection time, upload/average, download/average, and total/average. An app may be placed on a person's phone displaying the Traffic Meter, which looks like this:
The Traffic Meter does not display where the traffic comes from. However, on top of genie's configurable parental control feature from OpenDNS called FamilyShield which blocks pornography, proxy servers, and phishing sites en masse is a capability to perform TraceRoute and DNS lookups on the IP numbers you're connected to, giving whomever has access to genie access to information on the sites you're connected to.[nb]NETGEAR genie User Manual, http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/WNDR3800/genie_apps_UM_24nov2014.pdf[/nb]
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he also said he can see traffic
The Netgear genie is capable of measuring not monitoring network traffic, through the program's Traffic Meter. The Traffic Meter measures the amount of Internet traffic for today, yesterday, this week, this month, or last month. Each time period measured includes data for connection time, upload/average, download/average, and total/average. An app may be placed on a person's phone displaying the Traffic Meter, which looks like this:
The Traffic Meter does not display where the traffic comes from. However, on top of genie's configurable parental control feature from OpenDNS called FamilyShield which blocks pornography, proxy servers, and phishing sites en masse is a capability to perform TraceRoute and DNS lookups on the IP numbers you're connected to, giving whomever has access to genie access to information on the sites you're connected to.[nb]NETGEAR genie User Manual, http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/WNDR3800/genie_apps_UM_24nov2014.pdf[/nb]
Do you think with private internet access vpn running with DNS security on he could see which computers were on?
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[off-topic]Inquiring minds need to know, have you outed your self to room mate?[/off-topic]
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[off-topic]Inquiring minds need to know, have you outed your self to room mate?[/off-topic]
Im actually living with a friends parents till I finish school. I would like to avoid that conversation especially them finding out via porn lmao
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Do you think with private internet access vpn running with DNS security on he could see which computers were on?
Thanks for finding this information!If you use PIA then you have OpenVPN SSL based encryption layers over your tunneled connection, meaning the information in its particulars would not likely be available to him. That being said, your use of his router as an endpoint is still added to the [desc= the sum of the data rates that are delivered to all terminals in a network]aggregate throughput[/desc], which remains as general information available to anyone in possession of the router.
