My friend received a letter from his ISP warning him about illegal downloading. His wireless network is open and not password protected. I'm asking for myself as well because I need to close up my connection as well. Is there anyway to simply setup a wireless connection so that you can just enter a password to connect to that connection? We both have LinkSys routers and I have messed with the WPA and WEP settings to no avail. Is there any simple way to do this?
192.168.1.1 or 192.168.1.2 Type that into the address bar and it should take you to your router setup.
WPA or WEP should be the way to do it. You essentilly enter a code or password and then you have to enter that code before you can connect to your router. Your computer generally remembers the password so you don;t have to always enter it. You can also "hide" your netwrk throught your router settings so that if folks don't know the name of your network, the can't connect. You should also name your network something other than the default if you haven't already done so.
i don't have a linksys router anymore so i can't check for you but it should be very very simple. Look in the router settings. Go to your browser and connect to 192.168.1.1 THe setting should be in there. Youll have to have the admin password to get in. From there you should be able to set it up. On my wireless connection I'm using wpa and aes encryption. I'm no network expert but im sure you can choose whichever you wish. This setup works fine for me im using a trendnet router and it blows it has no range whatsoever. Just curious was he using torrents or was he downloading another way?
Don't use wep. Might as well just leave it open. It will take 3 min to crack. WPA is crackable but it might take a little longer. WPA with AES is pretty secure.
Yeah, when I tried WEP I entered a passphrase and and then it gave me 4 26 character keys and one of those was the default. When I tried to connect to my network I had to use the 26 character key to connect and I want to use a password I setup not one generated for me.
Have a look here: http://forums.linksysbycisco.com/linksys/board/message?board.id=Wired_Routers&thread.id=7036
My WPA options do not match those on the link. My options are the following: WPA Pre-Shared Key WPA Radius Radius WEP WPA Pre-Shared Key asks for the following: WPA Algorithm: TKIP or AES WPA Shared Key Group Key Renewal: 3600 seconds
Tell your friend to look into MAC address filtering. 1. Get the computers you want on your network. 2. In your router settings check out the computers using the network (displays their MAC addresses) 3. Copy said addresses. 4. Paste them in the MAC address filter section. 5. Enable Filtering.
MAC address filtering is a step in securing your computers, but it's easily gotten around by anyone really wanting to snoop simply because MAC addresses aren't encrypted during communication. Go to your router's page or just Google. There are millions of pages on how to secure home routers.
Ever since I changed my network password to bosco, my neighbors haven't been able to access my network. Hope that helps.
Just use a WPA2-PSK. Select a password that's not hard to crack such as - If you do this there is no Rainbow table that can crack it, and it would take years to brutt force it. You'll be okay.
it's only easy if you know how. i learned how to secure my wireless after a lot of reading, but it can be extremely intimidating if you've never done it before as with anything you're doing for the first time.
I need to get my Belkin secured. I thought it was, but it isn't. To set everything, do you need to be plugged in initially to it or can you do it via wireless?
maybe I am incorrect, but it seems the op is looking to secure his network because he got a letter about illegal downloading. a wep passcode wont hide his p2p or torrents from his isp though.
If you don't mind me derailing the thread, although it's still related, this is an open question: Do your routers tell you the computers connected to it?
yes most of them do. Look on the admin page 192.168.1.1 or something like that. It might be called attached devices.
