Passwording my Wireless

[traz]

hey all, I'm basically wondering how to set a password to my wireless router, so that no one can leech off my wireless internet without knowing the password? My dad is concerned about neighbours getting our signal and using our internet.

Any help? Thanks alot guys

[LuckyTxGuy]

The simplest advice I can offer is to tell you to go to the website of the company that makes your wireless router. The instructions are different for every router but it's usually very simple. The company's website will have step by step instructions on how to do this for your specific router.

Good luck!

[traz]

I got it to work, thanks ;o

[JordanIB]

If you're really concered you can also add MAC address filtering.

I'm not an expert though, so I don't know how that compares to encryption in terms of strength of security.

[TobDog]

I'm no expert either, but thats what I have at home and work for my routers, I only allow the MAC addresses of the computers that are supposed to be there and no one else can get on that network. I would like to hear from some of the experts here about the safety of this.

[Freakin]

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I'm no expert either, but thats what I have at home and work for my routers, I only allow the MAC addresses of the computers that are supposed to be there and no one else can get on that network. I would like to hear from some of the experts here about the safety of this.

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why wouldn't you also use WPA security?

Macs can be spoofed

[LuckyTxGuy]

Agree. Enabling WPA is much more secure than limiting to just MAC addresses and much easier also. Entering a simple passphrase will also allow any new user to log into your network, rather than adding their MAC address into your "allowed" list.

While the MAC address idea isn't bad, WPA is really much more secure. Just my 2 cents! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[BiPolar_Nut]

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Entering a simple passphrase will also allow any new user and any 7th grade script kiddie/jtr-runner to log in to your network

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Geebus....PLEASE use a decent passphrase....no dictionary word/name mixed w/ numbers, nothing enunciable, and use extended ASCII chars (like ú, ð, æ, °, ½, etc)