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When I go to iknowwhatyoudownload.com, a bunch of stuff shows up for my IP that’s definitely not being downloaded by anyone in my house (foreign language torrents). Aside from that my router (AT&T Arris BGW210) needs to be restarted about once a week, due to some kind of dhcp issue. The most recent event seemed bad - none of my devices had internet, they could all talk to each other, and my ONT activity light was flickering steadily. During this time I had no access to the router, even plugged in directly to LAN. Fixed by a restart but no idea what was going on.

The DHT torrent thing has been happening for months and the router thing could just be that AT&T sucks. I have no other evidence that something is wrong.

I could buy a firewall and put it downstream of the AT&T equipment.

I could switch internet providers, get a new IP address and router, and see if that fixes it.

Should I try to figure out what’s going on or just keep restarting the router once a week and ignore the DHT hits from my static IP?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Mine was accurate in terms of IP, network, etc (I checked on my phone's data plan), but the torrents made no sense. I clicked on one and it had a list of IPs, and none were associated with mine.

I'm guessing it's all made up nonsense, outside the IP address itself. Granted, it's possible people are torrenting large files on my carrier's data plan, I just don't think it's likely so much has been downloaded in the last day or so with this IP.

Your site looks more reasonable, OP's looks kinda sketchy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well, you don't know how many people share that same IP.

Also, I know that in past when I checked it, it did actually show what torrents I participated in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Does that mean it's accurate, or that you're participating in popular torrents?