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how to configure it to use a neutral router with it

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Let’s tell you how to configure Bridge Mode of the Movistar Smart WiFi 7 router, so that you can connect a neutral router. doing this You will make the main router a third-party router chosen and purchased by you, with features that can make better use of your network connection. He Bridge Mode It is a function that disables the functions of your home router. This way, the router will become just a modema kind of gateway or bridge to which to connect another different router. The different router will become the main one, it will be in charge of the WiFis, security, privacy, connections and all the functions of the router, while the operator’s router only decrypts and sends the line. Unfortunately, this means that you will not be able to stop using the operator’s fiber, it is a necessary intermediary between the fiber you have contracted and your neutral router. However, if you like to tinker, doing this can help you access functions that the new router may have but are limited in the operator’s, improve connectivity features, and make better use of your line. Configure the Bridge / Single-user Mode on the Movistar Smart WiFi 7 router To activate bridge mode on the Movistar Smart WiFi 7 router, the first thing you have to do is enter its settings. To do this, open the browser and type the address http://192.168.1.1 in the address bar. This address is the local IP, which is what the router uses to take you to its configuration panel. When you enter, you will have to write your username and password. If you have not changed it, you can find these two pieces of information on a sticker under the routerin the “Router access data” line. Once you are in the Movistar router configuration, you have to click on the menu button with the three stripes icon at the top left. This will display a menu of options, where you have to click on the option Multi-position/Single-position that will appear to you. Once inside the configuration Multi-position/Single-positionnow you have to select the option Single-user (No NAT). This mode allows your device to directly acquire the public IP, avoiding using NAT (‘Network Address Translation’) to browse the Internet. This mode means that you can only have one device connected to the router, which in this case will be the other router that we are going to use. Therefore, now all you have to do is install and configure the neutral router that you want to use following the instructions on the device. Cover image | Ivan Linares In Xataka Basics | PPPoE credentials: what they are and how to get them to configure your neutral router

There are different ways to get Movistar to put your new WiFi 7 router at home, although not all of them are free

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The router is usually one of those devices that stays at home for years, almost as part of the furniture. We only remember it when the WiFi fails or when we discover that there is a new model that promises to make everything a little better. Movistar already has that model: its WiFi 7 Router. And there begins the important question for many customers: if I already pay for fiber with the operator, can I simply request it? The short answer is that getting it is easy. Get it for free, not always. What the new router promises. Movistar does not only put a new WiFi label on the table. The operator assures that your router Wi-Fi 7 It allows up to 70% more traffic capacity, reduces latency by up to 50% and improves coverage by 10% compared to its predecessor. These are figures designed to explain a very specific scenario: homes where not only mobile phones and laptops are connected, but also televisions, cameras, home automation, consoles and other equipment that compete for the same network. Add to that 10 internal antennas, EasyMeshWPA3, one 10 Gbps high-speed port and three Gigabit Ethernet ports. The most direct route: 10 Gbps. Our colleagues from Xataka Móvil explain Hiring Movistar’s 10 Gbps fiber is the easiest way to get the WiFi 7 Router at no additional cost. It doesn’t matter if we are talking about a new registration, a portability from another operator or a client who is already in Movistar and decides to make the jump to that modality: in that case, the installation of the new equipment is included. The explanation is quite simple: the previous model only supports Wi-Fi 6. Not all highs play the same. The point that can cause confusion is that “being a new customer” is not always enough to get the included WiFi 7 Router. The equipment is incorporated free of charge into the new miMovistar convergent rate registrations from February 16, 2026, and the operator’s website It already shows it included in miMovistar unlimited with 1 Gbps fiber or in 600 Mbps fiber. But if the contract is for fiber only, 300 Mbps, 600 Mbps or 1 Gbps, the equipment included is Smart WiFi 6. The price of change. When the WiFi Router 7 is not included, the alternative is to buy it. Movistar sets two options: 60 euros If the client chooses the self-installable mode and 110 euros if you want the installation to be carried out by a technician. This is the scenario that applies to current customers with Smart WiFi 6 who want to change to the new model, but also to those who contract a rate where the equipment included is not WiFi 7. In both cases it can be ordered on the website, in store or through 1004. Images | Movistar In Xataka | After more than 20 years using Microsoft Office, I have switched to LibreOffice. Now I realize everything I’ve missed

A simple router is a machine capable of identifying humans with almost 100% accuracy. Or so these researchers say

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Using WiFi networks as a technology to track people is a twist in the script that not all of us saw coming. He Karlsruher Institute for Technologyone of the strongest research institutions in Germany, assures close to 100% accuracy when recognizing people without any type of camera and using it. What exactly happened. The KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) team published a paper with a promising headline: “Ordinary WiFi can identify people with almost perfect accuracy”. And this is achieved thanks to something that routers have been doing for recent years: beamforming feedback information. How the hell does this work?. To understand what it is about beamforming You must first understand how the devices emit signals. routers. In their first generations, routers emitted in all directions, just like a light bulb emits light in that way. With the most modern versions of WiFi, the way the signal is transmitted has improved. Routers began to concentrate the signal towards where the receiving device is, like a flashlight instead of a light bulb. Beanformig. That is called beamformingto form a concentrated beam and received by another device. But to aim well, the router needs to know where to point, and it is the connected devices themselves—your cell phone, your laptop—that send that information to the router continuously. Basically, they are constantly telling the router “hey, I’m here.” That message is the BFI, beamforming feedback information. And what is this for?. Now you know that your router sends information to your gadgets and that your gadgets send information to the router. When the devices send information to the router, they describe how the signal arrives, and interference along the way is recorded. Among them, human beings. Our body partially absorbs WiFi waves, reflects them, deflects them and alters how they reach the mobile phone or router. The researchers used that signal data to train models of artificial intelligencein order to detect patterns that would allow humans to be detected. They fed the system with thousands of examples associated with different people until the model learned to detect those wave changes associated with human presence. The system is not capable of visually recognizing anything in the environment, but it manages to have information about when a human is present in the environment. The caution. According to the researchers, “this technology turns each router into a potential means of surveillance.” “If you regularly pass by a café that operates a WiFi network, you could be identified there without realizing it and be recognized later, for example, by public authorities or companies.” The reality? It would be necessary for cybercriminals to develop a system identical or similar to that of the KIT to achieve a human video surveillance system through WiFi signals. The nuance. Under laboratory conditions, with 197 participants and in controlled environments, the system was close to 100% accuracy. But in the real world, it would be necessary to train a new model with data from hundreds of people in different spaces. The model is not a ready-to-deploy technology or a real threat – nor is it intended to be applied – but the research reveals how simple a priori data sets can be trained as a surveillance tool. In Xataka | There is a booming job in the era of artificial intelligence: cybersecurity expert

A Huawei router was not supposed to need a whopping 12,000mAh. It was supposed

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Earlier this month, Huawei held its HarmonyOS Smart Home event in China. An event in which, mainly, it presented to the world some of the home devices that it is preparing to continue advancing as a brand (mainly in China) during 2026. Among the devices presented, one of the most curious (and most covered) was the Huawei WiFi Xa very curious portable router with a gigantic 12,000mAh battery. What is. With its unusual X shape, the Huawei WiFi X is a portable, foldable router with an arrangement of 16 antennas that, according to the company, improves reception by 13% compared to conventional ones. It allows 5G connection and has been developed jointly by Huawei and China Mobile, supporting speeds of up to 5.3 Gbps download and 1 Gb upload. what else. Another of the key points of this router is its 1.8-inch screen, with OLED technology. This shows real-time information related to the battery level, number of connected devices, and is complemented and connected with the Huawei home app to be able to check this data from the phone. The Powerbank. This device has a gigantic 12,000mAh battery with 66W fast charging. Figures that are more reminiscent of a PowerBank than a wireless router. According to Huawei, it can transmit uninterruptedly for 20 hours, and with just 10 minutes of charging, for nine. Why is it important. Beyond the curiosity of the X design and the huge battery, Huawei boasts of being a benchmark in the WiFi 6 router industry. It has a system of four receiving antennas and four sending antennas (4×4 MIMO), low latency, and direct association with China Mobile, key in its native country. It also has interoperability with HarmonyOS. Huawei long ago left its system behind as a mobile-only solution, to create a complete software ecosystem that even powers routers. This is a device, in principle, aimed at China. However, the company has previously brought to Spain quite peculiar routers such as the Mesh X3 Pro system, a WiFi 7 with a theoretical speed of 3,570 Mbps and a 2×2 MIMO system. In Xataka | After six years of silent planning, Huawei is ready with its big move: dethroning NVIDIA

There are people modifying their router so that ads stop appearing on their refrigerator

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A man had to install an ad blocker directly on his router to stop his $1,400 refrigerator from showing ads. They tell it in the Wall Street Journal and, although it sounds absurd, it is just one of the experiences of those affected by the questionable decision that Samsung made a few months ago. What has happened? Samsung Family Hub refrigerators (those with a screen built into the door) began showing ads in September last year. Samsung admitted itconfirming that it was a pilot program for some users in the United States. Six months later, the ads are still appearing, some showing Samsung consumables like water filters, but others are third-party ads and in some cases they are full screen. Samsung says that the latter appear when the browser is opened and that it cannot control them. The problem of the official solution. Samsung allows you to remove ads from its refrigerators, but be careful because there is a catch. The advertising is integrated into a widget that also displays news, weather and calendar. To remove them, you have to delete the entire widget and there are users who do not want to lose it. The unofficial solution. Brian Bosworth is one of those affected by this decision, but he refused to give up the widget because he found it very useful, so he took the long route: he logged into his router, installed ad-blocking software, and made sure his refrigerator was included in the filter. Result: You keep the widget and don’t see ads. Discomfort. There are owners who feel directly deceived by this situation. They paid $1,400 for a premium appliance and now it has been turned into an advertising panel, all without their prior consent. One of them wants to return the refrigerator and has said that he will not buy any Samsung device again, which leads one to wonder if Samsung has correctly calculated the benefit of this decision. Making things worse. Cases like this are one more example of the drift that the internet and digital services are taking. It’s what was coined as ‘enshittification’which translated would be something like shit. It is a deliberate degradation of products and services that responds to an economic objective. Advertising is one of the forms of this degradation and we have seen it flood all types of services such as Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video, Instagram and even apps to control home cameras. We didn’t expect to see it also in refrigerators, but that’s the way things are. Image | Xataka In Xataka | “I take things that are good and make them worse”: Norway has a plan to reverse the decline of the entire Internet

five alternatives to connect without using your router

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Let’s tell you five alternatives for when you run out of Internet at homeeither due to a network outage or because the router has stopped working. Because whether it’s because you work at home or because you’re watching a series or movie and you don’t want to stop, it’s a good idea to take these alternatives into account. In this list, in addition to describing each of the available alternatives We will also tell you some points for and against for each one. This way, you will be able to make more informed decisions. Share Internet from your mobile If you have a decent amount of mobile data contracted, the best alternative is share Internet from your mobile. To the share your mobile datayou will create a WiFi network to which you can connect other devices, and you can even give it a personalized name and password. It’s a great solution, because you can actually give it the same name and password as your home WiFi so that all devices connect. Here, the only thing you have to keep in mind is that you will use a lot of battery on your mobile, and depending on what you are going to do you can spend a lot of data on your mobile rate, that is, it controls the downloads. Have a MiFi router at home MiFi routers are portable routers that work with SIM card. They have their own battery, and are used to create their own WiFi network, something that will also serve as an alternative to using the home mobile rate by connecting your SIM to this device. It is a more professional solution to avoid wasting your phone’s battery, but you will need to have purchased the device and have a SIM with data ready to use. Additionally, not all of these devices have 5G speeds, most tend to only have 4G. Use a router with SIM An alternative is desktop routers with 4G or 5G data, which use a SIM card. These They have better stability and WiFi coverage than MiFiso in large houses or greater needs you can get a solvent alternative network. The negative part here is that these routers do not have a battery and need to be plugged in, so They won’t work if you don’t have electricity. at home. You will also need to have a SIM with data to put it in. Dual WAM Routers This is a lesser known type of router called routers with failover either double WAN (Dual WAN). They are routers that They work with two types of connection at the same timeyour main fiber and a second fiber, a SIM or even a USB stick with 4G/5G. Thus, when the main network goes down or has problems, you automatically jump to the second until the main network returns to normal. If the problem is that the power goes out: UPS/SUPS If the problem why your router is not working is because the power has gone out, have a UPS on hand It is usually a good alternative. UPS/SUPS can be large or small, and are like advanced portable batteries that can give you a great deal of extra autonomy. Cover image | piqsels.com In Xataka Basics | Turning off WiFi at night: what advantages it has and what things you don’t have to worry about

It costs almost the same as the 16 TB and can be connected to the Wifi router

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There are few computers that come with base configurations that have little storage – I am very 256 GB in my Mac Mini M4-. That is why on many occasions it is convenient to have some external unit that allows us to store all the photos, videos, music or, in general, files. The Western Digital Mybook It is perfect for this, since it has fallen in price to the 357 euros in its 22 TB configuration. If you prefer, in Amazon it is available in several configurations, although the one that has better value for money is the 22 TB: Western Digital Mybook (22TB) * Some price may have changed from the last review A unit that connects to the router per wifi The Western Digital Mybook is a desktop unit that, in any case, has a fairly good configuration to store many photos, videos, music and files. In this case, it has a fairly compact size, since its dimensions are 17 cm high, 13.9 cm long and 4.9 cm wide. Comes equipped with software WD Backupwhich allows backups, and is compatible with Time Machine. It can be configured to run at the time we want to make backup copies, thus creating fully customized hours. Includes 256 -bit AES Hardware encryption to offer extra protection, it is designed to resist even blows and It can be connected to the router through wifi connection so that the unit can be accessed from any room in the house. You may also interest you Sandisk Extreme Pro SSD portable external with USB4, 4 TB, 40 GB/s, up to 3800 MB/s reading speed and up to 3700 MB/s of writing speed * Some price may have changed from the last review Sandisk extreme SSD portable external for PlayStation 5 and 1TB computer, speeds up to 1000 MB/s, water resistance and IP65 dust and against falls up to 3 meters, 1 month of Nitro Discord * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Western Digital In Xataka | Better 1 TB or more SSD to not have storage problems In Xataka | The best 2 TB or more SSD to avoid storage problems

Chatgpt now has a “router” that chooses for us what GPT-5 model use. And is choosing the cheapest

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The launch of GPT-5 It has not been up to the expected. Instead of being surprised with the generational jump, too many people have missed GPT-4o warmth. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, anticipated the launch of the New model with the death starbut the Hype It has stayed very far from the moments wow like the Chatgpt images generationthat reached “melter” servers. One of the culprits has a name: “router” or router. What happened. Behind him Model nomenclatures mess of OpenAI (already Remember Xiaom’s mobile messi) and the fact of making the user have to choose which one more, the company chose to launch all (sub) GPT-5 models in a unified way. Now the system would choose the model that estimated the most to resolve the indication. The person in charge of this task is a “router”. This, “quickly decides which model to use based on the type of conversation, complexity, or the need for tools.” The problem is that in these first days, the router usually opts too many times by the basic GPT-5 model, in front of the “Thinking” model or reasoner. What has made the new generation seen as much more silly than Sam Altman came to affirm (he defended it was like have a team of doctors at your disposal). The necessary jump It seemed impossibleand indeed, many users have not felt it. The problem. Openai decides which model is more efficient for the user, but also which model is more efficient for their servers. At the launch of GPT-5, they have not been transparent about what leads them to use one model or another, and users who accuse them of choosing the cheapest model for Save costs. Aidan McLaughlin, employee of Openai, defended in x that prefers GPT-5 without reasoning the majority (65%) of times for how interacts with the user. He assured that they do not use the routing to save costs, but use the one they think is the best model for each consultation, for efficiency. It seemed a successbut it has arrived without complying with what users expect. Altman recognized launch failures. During a question session (AMA) on Reddit held on Friday, Sam Altman read and observed that for many users, GPT-5 did not work as well as 4th. To it He replied That the new model seemed “more silly”, because the router did not work well when they threw it on Thursday. Who warns is not a traitor. On July 19, after announcing great performance in Mathematics OlympiadAltman announced that GPT-5 was just around the corner, in front of images like that of the death star, he was cautious, claiming to want to establish realistic expectations: “This is an experimental model that incorporates new research techniques that we will use in future models” “We believe you will love GPT-5, but we do not plan to launch a model with the gold capacity level of the mathematical Olympiad for many months.” The case remembers Sora’s, who was shown Very green After the Initial announcement promisesor that of O3, which was launched with a performance in benchmarks inferior to the initially promised (Unleashing everything A debate about whether we were already in the AGI). Openai has had to make changes. Before the complaints, from OpenAi they took a great measure: return to the users of the subscription Plus the possibility that the subscribers of the plan (of 20 euros per month) will use 4th again. But, in addition, they have touched the router to better choose the appropriate model to each consultation. Of course, without explaining what leads to use one or the other. The trick (if you pay). When users perceived that the problem of the new chatgpt with GPT-5 was not the model itself, but that the router did not turn to the reasoning model, they launched to look for ways to make GPT-5 Thinking use. The way to do it has been to integrate phrases such as “think about your in -depth response” in the indications, as suggested and demonstrated DOTCSV. In this way, it is achieved that, for Plus users, chatgpt use the Thinking model Without spending the quota of 200 weekly messages Manual mode. This trick does not apply to the free model, which could only activate it without asking for GPT-5 Thinking automatically once a day. Use free reasoning. Another change confirmed by Altman has been to integrate a reasoning button again (hidden) to use the reasoning model in the free version. Trying it, Chatgpt acknowledges using the GPT-5 Thinking Mini model, and we have been able to use it in 10 messages. From there, he used the model without reasoning. Is the successor of O4-miniwhich in April also received for free Reasoning functions With a “Think” button. Result: More use of reasoning. After announcing an increase in reasoning limits, Sam Altman has offered Specific data of the number of users who use reasoning now before the launch, and what indicates is the little that was used before, even among payment users. Free users have gone from less than 1% to 7%, but what the most collides is that those who paid the plus only used 7% reasoning, compared to 24% of now. It surprises in the sense that the reasoning of O1 and O3 supposed one of the great advantages over the free plan, thus the capacities of Deep Research. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Chip restrictions are over to China: now technological war

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