Comments on: How To Secure Your Wireless Network Connection

By: monica

monica — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:22:45 +0000

sorry, i am following all the instructions, getting the right username and password from the helpful cirt web site, but it just keeps popping up with the username/password box, apparently not accepting it. It seems like a lot of problems above are related to WRT54G, as are mine. I am exhausted from typing in admin as password…it is clearly not accepting. Suggestions?

By: raghav

raghav — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:37:01 +0000

sir. i think instead of 192.168.0.1 try 192.168.1.1 worked for me thx

By: Barry McKeever

Barry McKeever — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:37:50 +0000

Followed the above procedures to setup a secure wireless network. I show my unsecure and secure connections. When I try to connect through the secure connection I am unable to connect to any web pages even though it shows me as being connected. If I use the unsecure connection everything works fine. What to do now?

Thx

By: Lesley

Lesley — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:31:13 +0000

I also secured my Linksys WRT54G v5 by following the above steps and couldn’t access the internet afterwards. I had to change my router back to factory default by accessing the router through my wired desktop (easier than finding the little button). I don’t know what the problem is. I followed the steps exactly – tried it 3x’s. No internet after secured. Had to go back to default and unsecured. Linksys won’t help me without giving them another $30…warranty ended 2 months ago!

By: Data Protection

Data Protection — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:15:46 +0000

Congrats to Sean M. I can honestly say I have never heard of anyone doing that before. I think it is actually a fantastic thing to offer people who are in range of your network, but you are, of course, correct. Giving them access is one thing, but limiting that access should be an option. It seems like something that would not be too hard to cook up. Let me know if you find anything.

By: Encryption Software

Encryption Software — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:58:55 +0000

Wow. Good for you for being so giving. I can honestly say I have never heard of anyone doing that before. I think it is actually a fantastic thing to offer people who are in range of your network, but you are, of course, correct. Giving them access is one thing, but limiting that access should be an option. It seems like something that would not be too hard to cook up. Let me know if you find anything.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:53:11 +0000

I always use roadwarriorvpn.com when ever I am using public Wi-Fi. I can never trust the wireless connection when I am traveling.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:03:12 +0000

Each router has a reset button that resets the router to factory default settings. It’s usually so small that you will need a needle or something similar to push it. Press the button and hold it for 10 or so seconds. This should reset the router back to unsecured states and wipe all added settings.

By: Simply

Simply — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:49:34 +0000

Hey can anyone please help me…
My network was unsecured and i could easily connect to the connection but yesterday the connection was set to secured automatically i want to reset it back to its previous condition means unsecured
can anyone please explain how to do that?
and also i still get my own connection option to connect to but when i do so it doesn’t allow me too and show some other problem…

I’ll really appreciate if you solve my problem…

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:04:16 +0000

Good post! Thanks!

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:21:00 +0000

This works really well. I was one of those that has had a wide open unsecure network for the last 6 years and haven’t had a problem…….yet. So I finally went through the trouble of “securing” my network, with the full wpa and everything. Well it sure is secure! Now my 2 laptops cant connect no matter how much I mess with the security settings and the set the mac ids update the drivers. Blackberry wifi wont connect. Wii is offline now. I didn’t realize it would be such a seemingly impossible task to get all my devices to be online from my wireless and still keep neighbors from leaching off my connection. Now I disabled the wpa and I still am not able to connect. Shouldn’t have messed with anything now I gotta problem

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:29:45 +0000

you may want to add a comment regarding Changing the SSID from the default and not broadcasting it.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:58:49 +0000

You can find out your router’s IP address using infor provided in the post below, see ‘Digital Setup and Security’

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-set-up-and-secure-your-own-wi-fi-hotspot/

By: Venny

Venny — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:59:15 +0000

My problem is I put in the IP address and it never connects. I went to the CIRT.net and got the proper username and password, but where do I enter this since I can’t get a screen that asks for a user name and password? I just get a connection time out error.

By: David

David — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:54:10 +0000

Brian,

That is not correct. Anyone can sniff the traffic, see your mac address, then tell their computer to use the same mac address. Most network cards allow you to use whatever mac address you want.

WPA/WPA2 with a long, complex password is the best solution. Since you only have to type it in once, you don’t have to make it easy to remember.

Use WPA/WPA2 and don’t bother with anything else.