how to unlock locked wireless network?

If you can't connect to it wirelessly to use the Internet, and you can't get into your router with the login password you set up, it just might have been hijacked out from under you.

First, if this is a combined modem/router (a "two-wire modem"), contact your Internet Service Provider. The steps I'm about to give you relate to a separate wireless router. I'm not familiar with two-wire modems.

You have one great advantage over the hacker: You have physical access to the router. Here's what to do:

1.First some prep, because once you start this, you don't want to give the hacker time to grab the router back. Find out the router's local IP address (see below for details).

2.Have a computer connected to the router by a LAN port.

3.Have your browser up and the router's IP address in its address window.

4.Find out how to reset the router. Usually, there's a little button or hole on the router that you stick a paperclip wire into and hold it there for about thirty seconds. This should set the router back to its factory defaults. (If this doesn't work, try it again while powering on the router.)

Okay, here we go:

1.Reset the router.

2.Log into the router's admin pages by entering its default local IP address into your browser's address window.

3.Find the router admin page that permits or denies wireless administration (not wireless web access). DISABLE WIRELESS ADMINISTRATION IF IT'S ENABLED AND IMMEDIATELY SAVE THE CHANGE.

Unless they're really on top of things, that should keep them from grabbing the thing away from you again. If it doesn't, repeat the steps (now that you know where the appropriate page is) some other time of day, to catch them off guard.

Now for some steps to keep them from using the connection at all.

1.Find where the SSID (network name) broadcast is enabled. Disable that. (On my Linksys WRT54G, it's on the Wireless page, in the Basic Wireless Settings Tab.)

2.Find the router's SSID. Change it from the default. You'll have to define it on all your wireless machines, but the hacker won't know it. (Same comment as in previous step.)

3.Enable WEP or WPA encryption. (Wireless page, Wireless Security tab.)

4.See if the router has a way of saving its configuration to your hard disk. If so, do it. It's a great way to get back up in a single step. (Administration/Config Management.)

Now for finding the router's IP address. This should work, but because the router's been hijacked, it may not. If it doesn't, try 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.0, 192.168.1.2. Even better, research it from the router's documentation or the manufacturer's website from either a cabled-in machine, which doesn’t use the WEP key, or a machine on another network).

1.Click on the Start button.

2.Click Run...

3.In the text box, type in

cmd

and press Enter.

4.A black "DOS box" window will pop up. Type into it

ipconfig /all

and press Enter.

5.A bunch of seeming gibberish will fill the screen. In the section "Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection," on the line next to "Default Gateway" your router's IP address should appear.

Good luck.

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Oh, that has happened to me a couple of times.

Here is what you should do:

Contact the customer service of your company. Request an appointment in your city, and give your house number, street number, etc.

Let the technican guide you.

Or you can do this:

Switch the modem off, leave it off for 2 minutes; then start it again.

After, if you have switch, do it off, for 1 minute, and then do it on again. If you see your server, join it, and if that doesn't work:

Go to "View Wireless Networks"-it may be different in your computer; then at the left, there should be a list of options; there is one which says "Change the order of preferred networks"; remove all the networks, and then add a new one. Name it, put the network key, and press okay. Confirm the settings, and exit the window. Try openin the "View Wireless Networks" again and try connecting you server.\

Thanks, this is all the information I can give!

Hope I helped!

Good Luck on getting your wireless network, hope you get it!

Thanks, and cheers!

***EDIT*** Low probablity he is hacked...very low.

To continue what anarax side ...

Yes reset the device (there is a thing to press in with a pen probably). You are going to have to connect to the device from the WIRED side (not wireless) and also know the user ID and password. You can usually find them out in the owners manual or at the web site of the company that made your wireless router. Sometimes it's simple like admin and admin. The IP of the router will have gotten reset probably to 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1. You will need to be on the same network with your gateway pointing to that IP.

You'll have to reset the device back to factory defaults by pressing and holding the reset button for about 30 seconds.

Good Luck

Annorax64

You need an ethernet cord. Plug it in between your laptop and your wireless router and you can edit the settings such as Passwords and what-not from your laptop.