Protecting a wireless network?

Yes, you should be able to set a password (or key) that is required to log on to your wireless network. Go to the router Admin panel and you should be able to do it from there.

Rgds
 
If it is not 192.168.0.1 then it is most likely 192.168.1.1

As long as your wireless devices support it, make sure you use WPA2 with AES encryption, and dont use a word from a dictionary as a password, use multiple letters, both upper and lower case, numbers, maybe even symbols, and the longer the better.
 
It's sorted now, thanks for any advice.

I'd originally asked a neighbour to help me out and it turns out that he was leeching my bandwidth instead. I hope his house catches fire.
 
Jeff Lynne said:
I'd originally asked a neighbour to help me out and it turns out that he was leeching my bandwidth instead. I hope his house catches fire.
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lol :D yer that's always a risk if you get someone else to do these kind of things for you. At least now you understand it and can do it yourself in the future if needs be :)
 
Make sure your password contains a £ symbol. It appears on the lease number of keymaps.
there was a demo on youtube where a password of just £ was used and quite a few of the more freely available password crackers couldn't crack it.
Use upper case, lower case, numbers, punctuation and be sure to throw a £ in there somewhere :)
 
james201 said:
maybe just enable MAC address filtering so his connection gets rejected.
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MAC address filtering is not a proper security measure. MAC addresses can very easily be spoofed. It is the same with turning off SSID broadcast, it may mean whoever is trying to get into your wireless network has to take an extra 60 seconds, but it provides no real security.
 
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