Screen Grabs: giant Linksys WiFi router is The Internet

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Complete internet downtime is no laughing matter, but more frightening still is the prospect that the world's data flow is completely beheld to a giant, taciturn Linksys WiFi router. South Park clip embedded after the break -- we're still trying to decide whether this trumps the Aqua Teen episode where they meet the Wwwyzzerdd, freakish master of the internet.

Full ep here.

[killian @ Apr 17th 2008 11:22PM]

I'm watching this episode right this minute
I need to uh... have some... private internet time

[AutoTom @ Apr 18th 2008 3:43AM]

deer having sex with sheep while vomiting in japanese girls mouthes

"Click"

[ssuk @ Apr 18th 2008 5:45AM]

This web site at www.stansdad.com has been reported as an attack site and has been blocked based on your security preferences.

Hm...

[Matthew @ Apr 18th 2008 8:05AM]

How do we know it's the Linksys WiFi router that's giant? Maybe the South Park characters are all really 1" tall and the Linksys router is normal size.

[SimonRichards @ Apr 18th 2008 12:44PM]

This site actually lets you watch.

http://www.southparkzone.com/episodes/1206/Over-Logging.html

[phanbouy @ Apr 17th 2008 11:22PM]

the answer is 42

[gabe @ Apr 17th 2008 11:22PM]

login: admin password: admin

[Michael LaFramboise @ Apr 17th 2008 11:26PM]

Isn't it system/admin? - atleast on WRT54G...

[untitled @ Apr 17th 2008 11:28PM]

I knew I remembered it from somewhere:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUcOaGawIW0
- NRR (not a rick roll)

[ByronGman @ Apr 18th 2008 12:13AM]

FAIL!

You leave user name blank.

The password is "admin".

http://www3.nohold.net/noHoldCust56/Prod_8/KnowledgePortal/KPScripts/amsviewer.asp?docid=93bb017280e0407fb2322ac5d4af4166_KB4008_EN_070221_v1.xml&amsstatsid=2567530

[Nick M. @ Apr 18th 2008 9:56AM]

the couple of WRT54G routers ive dealt with have always been admin/admin

[nojok3 @ Apr 18th 2008 12:28PM]

Depends on the router model.

[Gaz @ Apr 18th 2008 12:29PM]

root
admin
For those using DD-WRT :D

[untitled @ Apr 17th 2008 11:23PM]

What sci-fi movie is that melody from?

[jbodar @ Apr 17th 2008 11:25PM]

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

[Yevon @ Apr 17th 2008 11:28PM]

Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind. And you call yourself a nerd? Fail.

[CraigJ @ Apr 18th 2008 12:15AM]

except the last note is wrong...

[sinjinn @ Apr 18th 2008 7:23AM]

they didnt want to pay royalty

[chris @ Apr 18th 2008 10:09AM]

I thought it was the harmonica tune from "How the west was won"

[Spinfusor @ Apr 18th 2008 2:00PM]

They also used the melody in Moonraker.

[webon @ Apr 17th 2008 11:23PM]

Oh my God, they killed Kenny! You bastards!

[E71 @ Apr 17th 2008 11:25PM]

Original.

[Paulmichael @ Apr 18th 2008 1:20AM]

Kenny didn't even make an appearance in this episode! Rather depressing, too. His demise usually makes my day so much better!

[Yevon @ Apr 17th 2008 11:24PM]

Really? No one caught this South Park episode yesterday in the Engadget HQ? This news was sooo one day ago.

jk

[Jon Doe. @ Apr 18th 2008 12:41AM]

And your point...oh right...you don't have one. Carry on with the bitching.

[Mobius_1 @ Apr 18th 2008 8:32AM]

They didn't have internet

[Michael LaFramboise @ Apr 17th 2008 11:26PM]

As long as its not running stock firmware I'm cool w/ it...

[phanbouy @ Apr 17th 2008 11:31PM]

the neanderthals who lived in the apt. upstairs from me always had their LINKSYS network open. i doubt it's because of their generosity.

so, i sorta went ahead and loaded custom firmware on it, optimized the settings for my taste, and changed the router password. i figured i should at least be able to get as much bandwidth as i could leach from them to make up for the hours and hours of sleep lost.

thank you linksys. i think.

[Bryan Jackson @ Apr 18th 2008 3:26AM]

My downstairs neighbor used to have an unsecure WRT54G. He was also quite loud and obnoxious.

I decided to load DD-WRT on his router and insert a DNS rule that had the effect of * goes to tubgirl.

Hilarious. I saw his router go on and off over the next few days as I'm sure he thought that power cycling would change it. He then bought a netgear router (noted from the change in names), but this time he secured it.

Bummer.

[Gaz @ Apr 18th 2008 12:39PM]

Hope ya got the router out the trash, I use mine as a client bridge, eliminates the need for any crappy dongles :-)

[Doug @ Apr 17th 2008 11:35PM]

Login: Admin Password: Admin

BEST EVER! lol This is GREAT! I'm gonna start taking pictures all the time now!

[Striker @ Apr 18th 2008 12:01AM]

Actually, the default username and password for a Linksys router is no username, and the password is "admin" gosh get it right lol

[daniel @ Apr 18th 2008 12:16AM]

actually, the login can be anything for the user name as long as you type admin for the password. Atleast most Linksyses (Linksi?) that I've seen

[Balls. @ Apr 18th 2008 12:19PM]

You don't need a username period for the WRT54G. It just authenticates based on password.

[Juice Daddy @ Apr 17th 2008 11:36PM]

I totally called it


nobody heard me... but I called it...

[Henry @ Apr 17th 2008 11:38PM]

i think everyone with some sort of computer background knew he was going to reboot the internet (router).

[phanbouy @ Apr 17th 2008 11:42PM]

anyone else using firefox 3b5? i haven't been able to install adobe flash and i dont feel like opening IE to view that south park clip

[Nushio (NDF - Blue) @ Apr 17th 2008 11:53PM]

Fedora 8 - Werewolf (Linux) user here reporting from F3B5.

What I did was install Flash as normal, then copy the entire plugins dir from firefox2, into the plugins dir of firefox3.

That seemed to work.

[Jared @ Apr 18th 2008 12:25AM]

I *just* updated Firefox to 2.0.0.14 on Mac 10.4 and now flash videos won't show without scrolling part of the video out of the browser view. Grrr.. they fixed that problem with 2.0.0.13 and now brought it back!.

[ddub @ Apr 18th 2008 1:39AM]

I'm running 3b5, and flash is the only thing I can get to work.

[Speedmonkay @ Apr 17th 2008 11:46PM]

I love how they talk with it all "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" style ....

[CraigJ @ Apr 17th 2008 11:49PM]

I was all ready for the router to respond and break a window... I gotta watch that movie this weekend...

[CraigJ @ Apr 17th 2008 11:48PM]

if they had loaded it with dd-wrt they wouldn't have had a problem. http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv3/index.php

[L.M.L.Y.P @ Apr 17th 2008 11:54PM]

I liked the Grapes of Wrath portion of the episode. good episode.

[kevin_ho @ Apr 17th 2008 11:56PM]

Linksys > D-link (?)

[Greg Spruce @ Apr 18th 2008 12:08AM]

by far

[kade @ Apr 18th 2008 12:13AM]

ya i was like he's soo gonna reboot

[Make Money Online @ Apr 18th 2008 12:35AM]

I can't believe I've never seen this episode before. I'm watching the whole thing right now!

[DESTOS @ Apr 18th 2008 1:14AM]

Really? How could you have missed it in the past 24 hours?

[phanbouy @ Apr 18th 2008 1:17AM]

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