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  • xylight@fedi.phtn.apptoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL: Rotten Tomatoes is owned by Comcast (75%) and Warner Bros. Discovery (25%)English
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    20 hours ago

    Does anyone actually like Comcast? I feel like absolutely 0 consumers, no matter the political background, enjoy the Comcast experience.

    My most recent Comcast crashout™️ was how their router does port forwarding.

    First, you have to pay an extra fee per month to get more than 1TB monthly data usage (crazy)

    Next, you can’t change the default DNS server (annoying)

    Third, I had this random issue where the gateway would randomly force clients to be ipv6 only, and sometimes ipv4 only. (Diabolical)

    But their port forwarding was the worst.

    I, as an advanced user, go to the admin panel. EVERYBODY who knows what tf port forwarding is and why they’d want to do it would use this admin panel.

    I go to advanced. Wait 5 seconds for their god awful panel to load. I click “port forwarding”. while I wait, I reflect on the fact that this panel has a 6mb JavaScript bundle for absolutely no reason. And then, the page loads.

    “Port forwarding has been moved to the My xFi page – some link – manage your router easier than ever!” - I DONT WANT EASIER THAN EVER!!! I AM PORT FORWARDING. I AM NOT A 79 YEAR OLD GRANDPA WHO NEEDS AN APP TO RESTART THE WIFI.

    Whatever. I go to the page. Log in to the mandatory account that I shouldn’t need, because a router is independent of external services (or at least should be). After I log in and download the 8 gigabyte JavaScript bundle, a new page appears. “Download the xFi app for easier access”. I HAVE TO PULL OUT MY PHONE AND DOWNLOAD SOME RANDOM APP FOR “EASY ACCESS” TO A FEATURE THAT ONLY PEOPLE WHO DONT CARE ABOUT EASE OF ACCESS WOULD USE!

    I download the app. I log in. Get redirected to a WebView. I log in twice. Finally.

    My god, this is the most atrocious app I’ve ever seen. No dark theme, probably not native kotlin or java or anything. The backstack makes no sense, some pages will exit out of two simultaneously.

    I finally find the port forwarding page. I click “Add a port forward”.

    Instead of forwarding to an IP address, you have to select from a list of NAMED devices. The router isn’t detecting the hostname of my home server, and the router won’t let me assign a new IP address.

    I desperately try and fix that, but it turns out the list updates on a fixed timer of 2 minutes, where it suddenly appears.

    I click Add port forward again, and select my home server. I added port 443. Suddenly, the router seems to reboot completely, which was strange. After it finally reboots, I add port 222. IT REBOOTS AGAIN! THIS APP MANUALLY REBOOTS THE ROUTER FOR EVERY SINGLE CHANGE MADE TO PORT FORWARDS!

    Luckily those were the only ports I planned to port forward.

    Later while debugging this terrible router, it turns out FOR SOME REASON OTHER LESS ADVANCED OPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE HERE! I CAN MANAGE UPNP, DMZ ZONES, WHAT IS HAPPENING

    Thank you for reading my rant. I needed to scream into the void about this.

    What’s funny is later on injust gave up and started to use cloudflare tunnels, nullifying the need for port forwarding. Maybe I should just go completely ipv6 too.

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