Mobile/PDA About Us Advertise here
User User name Password  
  Not registered yet? Register here.
Lost your password? Click here. 		 
  Home   News   Guides   Downloads   Glossary   Hardware   Profiles   Forums   v4  
 Advertise at AfterDawn.com     Link to us!     Private messages     Compose a private message     List of all updated threads     Threads without replies     Search messages
Monday 25.11.2024 / 20:46
Search AfterDawn Forums:        In English   Suomeksi   På svenska
afterdawn.com > forums > software, operating systems and more > windows - general discussion > how do i password protect my wireless connection.
Show topics
 
Forums
Forums
How do I password protect my wireless connection.
  Jump to:
 
Posted Message
gnarkills
Member
_ 		11. July 2008 @ 19:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I suspect my neighbor is stealing my internet connection. I have a wireless router connected to my PC so I can use my laptop via wireless connection. How to I set it so when I log on with my laptop, I have to use a login and password.

My wireless router is a D-LINK DI-524
[ + quote]
Advertisement
_ 		__
core2kid
AfterDawn Addict

23 product reviews
_ 		12. July 2008 @ 01:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Type in to your address bar:
192.168.0.1
Then edit your wireless settings with a password. I suggest you use WPA if all your wireless cards support it, its a lot more secure than WPA.

Also you won't need to enter a password on your laptop all the time, You should be able to save the wireless password on your laptop, I think it does that by default. Thats an option on Vista though. This way you will always connect to it but your neighbor or whoever won't be able to unless he knows the password.
Also to be more secure you can disable the SSID broadcast or Enable hidden wireless along with changing your wireless name. This way anybody that scans for a wireless will see that there is one but won't see the name of it. Also use special characters such as $ in your wireless name/password. This will make it a lot harder to hack.

Hope this helped.

BTW, your wireless logon by default should be user: admin, no password. If it doesn't work reset your router with the reset button on the back. Hold it for some 30 seconds.
[ + quote]
21Q
Senior Member
_ 		14. July 2008 @ 13:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I would also suggest hidding your SSID and using mac address filtering, if you need help with that just ask.
[ + quote]
ronin786
Newbie
_ 		17. July 2008 @ 15:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by core2kid:
 Type in to your address bar:
192.168.0.1
Then edit your wireless settings with a password. I suggest you use WPA if all your wireless cards support it, its a lot more secure than WPA.
I think u meant WPA2
right???
[ + quote]
Advertisement
_ 		__
 
_
core2kid
AfterDawn Addict

23 product reviews
_ 		17. July 2008 @ 16:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well, yea but I put down WPA since not all devices, such as the PSP, support WPA2.
[ + quote]
afterdawn.com > forums > software, operating systems and more > windows - general discussion > how do i password protect my wireless connection.
 

Digital video: AfterDawn.com | AfterDawn Forums
Music: MP3Lizard.com
Gaming: Blasteroids.com | Blasteroids Forums | Compare game prices
Software: Software downloads
Blogs: User profile pages
RSS feeds: AfterDawn.com News | Software updates | AfterDawn Forums
International: AfterDawn in Finnish | AfterDawn in Swedish | AfterDawn in Norwegian | download.fi
Navigate: Search | Site map
About us: About AfterDawn Ltd | Advertise on our sites | Rules, Restrictions, Legal disclaimer & Privacy policy
Contact us: Send feedback | Contact our media sales team
 
  © 1999-2024 by AfterDawn Ltd.

  IDG TechNetwork