Wireless being hacked! Advice please?

gazjam

gazjam

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Hi
Im on Virgin Media Broadband and have my two computers linked to my cable modem via a Netgear Wireless router.

Also, Ive connected a BT Business Hub (2Wire 2700) ADSL router via ethernet cable to another room, and Im using it as a wireless access point for my Ipod.

The Wireless side of things is switched off at the Netgear Admin page, but it is WEP password protected anyway.

Someone is tapping into the wireless connection of MY ACCESS POINT (the BT ADSL router) and I cant seem to stop it.

The problem is that I cant access the Admin page of the BT Router so I cant set any security settings etc.

*I had assumed because the wireless settings were passworded in my Netgear router (directly connected to my cable modem) the BT router would take its security settings from whatever it was connected to but it seems not.

Any ideas guys?
I'm a networking dunce!


Thanks
 
You need to access the admin pages of the BT Business Hub, which should be available via its LAN IP address. It's creating its own wireless network, the wireless settings you have configured for the Netgear router are irrelevant.
 
Thanks guys, problem is that I cant access the BT Access point admin page...

Done IPConfig/all to get the correct IP..but its just not connecting.
grrrr.

good call on just swithing the thing off though, would be good to stop this bugger leeching my broadband though!


Also, as its an ADSL modem I'm using as an Access Point.....I cant use it as my "main" modem as its ADSL....

so catch 22!

or is it? Im clueless from this point on!

thanks
 
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gazjam said:
Done IPConfig/all to get the correct IP..but its just not connecting.
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Assuming your Netgear router is acting as the gateway you're not going to see it with an ipconfig /all. Ideally you'll have the Business Hub on the same subnet, making sure its LAN IP is different from the Netgear, and with its DHCP server disabled. A quick google shows its default IP might be 192.168.1.254, try that in your browser.
 
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setup on the mac address, only allow your hardware once in,,

use angry ip scanner to get your ip.. if yor using ipod there a free ap to show its ip address,,

can you log in to the 2wire at all ?
 
its default is 192.168.1.254 or bthome i think.. you must have orignally logged in to change the ip address/range if you reset it it will default to ip ive said.


once in you can use there own setup to allow access through mac address only hence stopping any other connection..
 
Cheers for that.
I take it the reset button is a kind of "factory default" and I should be able to access the settings page??
(he says hopefully!)
 
Use WPA2 if possible. The only reason to use WPA or even worse WEP, is for compatibility with older wireless devices. Use a strong key, and make sure you password protect the router itself, otherwise should the person gain access to the network again there would be nothing stopping him just connecting to the routers management page and changing the settings to what he wants.
 
I like the 2700 series routes, would be surprised if it was working as an AP though without its dhcp, internal IP or wifi having been set up once before.

from memory I thought the advanced managment page had mdc at the end not managment?

Also I think if you type homeportal into a browser it automatically takes you to the default configuration page (provided your in the right ip and subnet )

As above to use an adsl router as an ap, you turn off its dhcp, assign it an IP in a range higher than your network and use a non wan ethernet connector back to your main router

to allow you to still easily configure it I usually widen the main router subnet from 255.255.255.0 to say 255.255.0.0

and put the AP's on static Ip's a group higerr than the router

ie if routers 192.168.0.1 with subnet 255.255.0.0, AP goes on say 192.168.1.1

like many routers its worth rebooting it once you set up soemthing to check the settings are being applied and have been written to the memory fully
 
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