Routers have a default user name and password which anyone can find in 30 seconds. Unless you were smart and changed them of course.
I knew that but I had incorrectly assumed that when I identified my server (to others) and then restricted it to my known only to me password that I was overriding what it came with.
OK I have now typed in the user name as "admin" and the password as "password" and it brought up the Netgear wizard and I was able to view the last page or so of logs. The useage seemed to correspond with what I had done and the only thing that bothered me was my useage yesterday from my hospital bed (their public wifi) where my useage had the words DOS "attack" whatever that means.
Summary: I assume that my server name and its secret password are meaningless if somebody comes into my router using my IP along with the router default user name and "password" and decides to reset everything.
Is that true?
If I want to do the same to my neighbors a couple of streets away can I just try a couple of IP addresses and see if I get in?. Then I suppose I would have to change the password for their ISP connection to something I know and they would be screwed until they figured out how to reset their router?
If they called a tech he would be smart enough to see my strange ISP assigned IP in the logs but they wouldn't know me by name ?