Spectrum Q...
Hi All,
I recently dumped my TWC's "TV" package and kept the broadband so they officially moved me into Spectrum and upped my BB speed to 100/10. After a few days, I was still stuck at 25 (like my old 25/2 package) and phone tech couldn't get it figured. A tech came out and found one questionable fitting and noticed that the speed was right (112/12) over ethernet, just not WiFi. He changed the modem anyway and now I'm wondering if this new modem allows Spectrum to somehow decrypt VPN traffic and see what I'm doing. Old modem was a Motorola 4121, new one is an Arris TM1602AP2. I asked and he said the old modem would have worked but he changed it anyway. FWIW, the WiFi card is 2.4g and only allows for 50-ish DL speeds, I have a 5g card ordered. Our phones are 5g and will DL in the mid-90's...
Russ
I recently dumped my TWC's "TV" package and kept the broadband so they officially moved me into Spectrum and upped my BB speed to 100/10. After a few days, I was still stuck at 25 (like my old 25/2 package) and phone tech couldn't get it figured. A tech came out and found one questionable fitting and noticed that the speed was right (112/12) over ethernet, just not WiFi. He changed the modem anyway and now I'm wondering if this new modem allows Spectrum to somehow decrypt VPN traffic and see what I'm doing. Old modem was a Motorola 4121, new one is an Arris TM1602AP2. I asked and he said the old modem would have worked but he changed it anyway. FWIW, the WiFi card is 2.4g and only allows for 50-ish DL speeds, I have a 5g card ordered. Our phones are 5g and will DL in the mid-90's...
Russ
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Sorry for the delays.
No, your modem cannot decrypt the traffic. That's the whole point of using encryption! At the moment, RSA and AES are both still considered unbreakable/requiring more energy than there exists on earth (although there are growing concerns of quantum computers breaking RSA, which is why some people prefer to use elliptic curves instead).