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wired and wireless routers hooked together! security issues?
my house is cat5 wired. have linksys router/hub.(wired) 3 computers hooked up to the wired router, leaving 1 open port. just bought lap top came wireless card installed. bought a linksys wireless router. came out of the last port of the (wired) router into the internet port of the wireless router. its up and runner. how do i now set up security so nobody else can view or use the wireless signal? tried the disk that came with the router, cant get past the asking of password. i type one in and it just keeps asking again.
i want to use the notebook all around the house and be sure that people next door can not view my files and such. do alot of online buy and e-payments thru banks.
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- 2 decades agoFavorite Answer
You have to enable WEP or WPA Security on your Wireless Router. WPA is the best protection for wireless router now. WEP is crackable but it's better than nothing. Normally the password for Linksys router is "linksys" (Without Quotations) If it's not try the word password, if that's not it reset your router to the original factory settings and check your documentation for the default password.
Check these articles from linksys
- networkmasterLv 52 decades ago
First things first, you need to get into your wireless router's web interface. You said you're having trouble getting past the password prompt. Are you sure you're connecting to the wireless router and not the wired router? Because out of the box, they would both typically have the address 192.168.1.1 so when you hooked up your wireless router you may now have a duplicate IP address. you would want to make your wired router 192.168.1.1 and your wireless router 192.168.1.2 for example. They would also typically have a default login username/password of admin/linksys or maybe admin/admin. So you might have to temporarily disconnect the wireless router from the wired one, and just connect one PC with a wire to the new wireless router and put 192.168.1.1 in your browser. Try the admin/linksys to log in. Double check the manual for the default password. If necessary, reset the router to factory defaults by holding in the reset button as described in the manual. Give the new wireless router a LAN address (under setup, basic setup) select Static IP and make it 192.168.1.2 and reconnect it to the wired router and make sure you can get to each of them properly.
Now for security, technically anyone close enough can "view" your signal, but you want to make it useless to them. You can use WEP at your own risk, it will keep your honest neighbors honest, but is easily broken by someone who knows how to do it, regardless of key length. Don't be fooled into thinking 128 bit WEP is more secure than 40 bit WEP, because weaknesses in WEP make it vulnerable at any key length, which is why you'll never see 256-bit WEP or 512-bit WEP. Your most secure method is to set up WPA/WPA2 in PSK (pre shared key) mode. You'll configure this on both the wireless router and the PCs with the wireless network interfaces. The longer the pre-shared key (passphrase) the better, up to 64 characters. Also consider using features like MAC address filtering as per your manual. Don't forget to change the default passwords on your linksys routers to something else.
You mentioned lots of online buying and e-payments, note that regardless of wireless or not, make sure you have a secure SSL browser connection, make sure you see the locked padlock in the lower right corner of Internet Explorer for example. Make sure you're running a decent antivirus and antispyware package that includes a personal firewall, such as those from Norton or McAfee.
