When Alex* found a security flaw in his Optus cable modem that allowed anyone with some basic technical knowledge to receive and make calls using his phone number and to see who he called and when ...

A security flaw in Optus modems puts cable subscribers in Australia at risk of hackers gaining access to or hijacking their home phones, tampering with their WiFi and compromising their home ...

The company does not offer the cable product to businesses, having focused on the consumer market. To attain the higher speeds, current Optus customers will need to upgrade their cable modem to a new ...

It showed speeds of 1,147 Mb/s on the 2.4GHz Wi-Fi SSID and a huge 4,803 Mb/s on the 5GHz SSID. It truly is a joy to use the Optus Ultra WiFi 5G modem on the Optus 5G network.

It’s no larger than the Optus-supplied 4G modem itself, and with a 2m cable, it means you can easily position this antenna away from your modem for optimum signal.

The second incident related to Netgear and Cisco modems deployed to 197,000 and 111,000 customers, respectively, since 2008. Optus left the management ports of these modems open to allow Optus to ...

Long time mac user, technically adept, but this puppy has me baffled...<BR><BR>Friend has Optus business broadband (australian provider) installed at home. The modem is a D-Link 302G ADSL modem.

in brief Optus has upgraded its cable network in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane boosting maximum speeds to up to 20Mbps on certain plans. Existing customers will need to upgrade their plans to ...

Optus also offers specially designed Mobile as Modem data packs, with 2GB and 6GB allowances for either $24.99 or $44.99 per month after paying the $9.99 per month access fee outlined above.

Under the new agreement, Optus' cable customers will be able to sign up to Foxtel, have access to the pay-TV company's iQ set-top boxes, and subscribe to up to 20 high-definition channels.

Optus has announced that it will begin switching off its Hybrid Fibre Coaxial (HFC) cable network in 2014, and will completely dismantle the network by 2018. The announcement was made after the ...

While Optus’ NBN plans may be more affordable than Telstra's, they’re not the cheapest in the market, and they do come with the caveat of requiring you to pay for the modem unless you stay ...