He clicked , selected the .bin file, and hovered the mouse over Update .

The bar froze.

He typed into the browser. The login page appeared—pale blue, utilitarian. Username: root . Password: admin . (He had never changed it. A sin, he knew.)

He pulled up the HUAWEI support page on his laptop. The HG255s was an old model—released back in the ADSL2+ era, a relic from 2012. The official HUAWEI website no longer listed it prominently. It was buried under “Legacy Products,” a digital graveyard of forgotten tech.