- OT: Belkin Wireless Router Help
- Posted by Dragon on February 7th, 2006
Ok guys need some advise please, bought the wireless belkin router for
telewestfrom pcworld and its all running great but what i need to know how
do i stop other people connectingt o the wireless router, like say
neighbours and the likes. It doesnt install any visible software to adjust
settings on my pc so what can i do.
Is it network setting i need to change as i am running another pc of the
router with a usb adapter, sorry im only new to these wireless stuff so not
sure what to do properly if at all.
cheers dave
- Posted by shakey on February 7th, 2006
Suggest you repost this here, that is where the wireless experts hang out.
SG
microsoft.public.windows.networking.wireless
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- Posted by Rick on February 7th, 2006
Dragon wrote:
higher. This will stop casual users but, if somebody really wants to
get on your network they could break the WEP key.
Check your users manual.
Rick
- Posted by Stan Brown on February 7th, 2006
Tue, 07 Feb 2006 01:27:47 GMT from Dragon
<davewhitnospam@blueyonder.co.uk>:
Most likely you set security on the router by connecting to it with
your Web browser. You'll need to log on using the default password
(which you should then change). Read the leaflet that came with your
router, or read the user manual that is included on a CD if
documentation came that way.
The word is "advice", not "advise", by the way. You advise someone
(verb), but you give or receive advice (noun).
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
- Posted by R. McCarty on February 7th, 2006
Codes are fine as a 1st line of defense against "Piggybackers". However,
if you'll only have one or two PCs connected you might want to consider
using MAC Address filtering. Essentially, you tell the Router than only a
specific MAC can connect. Many routers can detect and automatically
add client MAC addresses to it's allowed table. You would still want to
use a encryption key so your network appears to XP as "Secured".
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- Posted by Dragon on February 7th, 2006
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- Posted by Stan Brown on February 7th, 2006
Mon, 6 Feb 2006 21:10:31 -0500 from R. McCarty <PcEngWork-
NoSpam_@mindspring.com>:
Good advice; when I got my wireless router recently I did both.
As the new router user, I found "Wireless Network Security 101" from
PC World to a really helpful checklist. It's at
<http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,115066,pg,4,00.asp>.
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
