Q: Does anyone know how to password protect your wireless router to connect to it? Living in an apartment and the neighbors with my internet for free. They do not want to spend the money as they can pick mine. Ive seen what you must write a password to connect? Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks
Best Answer: Usually you use your browser, type in 192.168.1.1. That'll take you to the log in page for your wireless router. The password to get in to your router is usually "admin", and the same "admin" for your login. Or it's nothing at all. Once in, just follow the directions to put a password on the router and another on your wireless network. I'd suggest WPA instead of WEP for the password protocol.
Re:Ah I don't think I mis-inform, but I do think you are a little naive.
http://wifinetnews.com/archives/004428.html
Yeah 20 charecter passphrase takes a long time, but how often do you change it? How often do businesses change it, yeah it says those are proof of concept well the tools are already out there if you know where to look and they don't really take that long, just go home get the captured packets and leave a computer cracking it, a couple days for short passphrases, obviously longer for more involved passphrases.
To quote the article
"For WPA, certain shorter or dictionary-based keys are highly crackable because an attacker can monitor a short transaction or force that transaction to occur and then perform the crack far away from the physical site."
All I was saying is if someone wants to get in, really wants to, they will more than likely find a way.
Re:"don't need to stay on or near the network, just go away and crack the wpa key"
Your not cracking a key with WPA your cracking a passphrase. As long as the passphrase is at least 20 characters Your fine. You continue with misinformation changlinn. Starting to shake my head at you.
Re:u guys have to realize its just a home network, setup wep or wap, as long as u have one, if you see some one on ur drive way with a laptop go beat them…
its just a home network..
u guys are way off the topic he need help on setting up the WEP, so best thing to do is read your manual, or even better go to linksys.com in there FAQ is shows picture by picture how to set it up, hope that helps nautique
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Re:For those to lazy to read the article, FBI recently cracked wep 128 in 3minutes, I have cracked wep64 on a celeron 400 laptop in 15, not using the newer tools either, and I have seen how to crack wpa, once the packets are captured you don't need to stay on or near the network, just go away and crack the wpa key, if someone wants to get connected they will, if they try really hard, I would suggest just enable layers, wpa/wep128 and mac filtering and then monitor the connection, make sure the neighbours aren't still connecting, if they have cracked in, then they are good enough to crack almost anything bar putting the ap on a software router with vpn end point, this way you need to connect to the vpn to have access to your network and the internet, and if you use openvpn, with 2048bit encryption, if they try a brute force hack it will take them a few thousand years…
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Originally posted by: guy
I beg to differ with the "no protection" (little is relative). WEP is not good protection for securing your network against those determined to compromise it. You can see here (http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/4081) how 64-bit WEP was cracked in 87 minutes (the author admits that his time is a) lucky and b) much benefited from the netwrok being flooded with pings).
However, if your adversary is just your neighbor leeching with a Windows machine, even WEP would send them to buy their own access or pay for yours.
Not that WAP is not better; just that if you do not have WAP the sky is not falling.
BTW, as the article shows, MAC filtering is not sufficient as any non-naive adversary can spoof the MAC from traffic.
Welcome to 2005 (http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article111-page1.php)
After about three minutes of capturing and cracking, the FBI team found the correct WEP key, and displayed it on a projected notebook screen. Agent Bickers, still speaking to the audience, turned around, looked at the screen and was surprised, "Usually it takes five to ten minutes."
:light:
:Q
You beat me to that article. Also to mention if those don't RTFA, it was a 128 bit WEP key.
So use WPA. It's easy to set up.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
I beg to differ with the "no protection" (little is relative). WEP is not good protection for securing your network against those determined to compromise it. You can see here (http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/4081) how 64-bit WEP was cracked in 87 minutes (the author admits that his time is a) lucky and b) much benefited from the netwrok being flooded with pings).
However, if your adversary is just your neighbor leeching with a Windows machine, even WEP would send them to buy their own access or pay for yours.
Not that WAP is not better; just that if you do not have WAP the sky is not falling.
BTW, as the article shows, MAC filtering is not sufficient as any non-naive adversary can spoof the MAC from traffic.
Welcome to 2005 (http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article111-page1.php)
After about three minutes of capturing and cracking, the FBI team found the correct WEP key, and displayed it on a projected notebook screen. Agent Bickers, still speaking to the audience, turned around, looked at the screen and was surprised, "Usually it takes five to ten minutes."
:light:
:Q
Re:I have a Linksys Wireless – B model number BEFW11S4
and it says I have Wi-Fi Protected Access.
Re:i find mac address filtering to be the most secure and most newer routers make it pretty simple to add aditional mac address as they will autodetect the new connections.
Re:guy said
WEP is little or no protection.
I beg to differ with the "no protection" (little is relative). WEP is not good protection for securing your network against those determined to compromise it. You can see here (http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/4081) how 64-bit WEP was cracked in 87 minutes (the author admits that his time is a) lucky and b) much benefited from the netwrok being flooded with pings).
However, if your adversary is just your neighbor leeching with a Windows machine, even WEP would send them to buy their own access or pay for yours.
Not that WAP is not better; just that if you do not have WAP the sky is not falling.
BTW, as the article shows, MAC filtering is not sufficient as any non-naive adversary can spoof the MAC from traffic.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
You could just use MAC address filtering.
That's more troublesome when you have occasional house guests…
Re:You could just use MAC address filtering.
Re:WEP is little or no protection.
WAP-PSK (Pre-Shared Key) is the simplest and most effective way to protect your wireless network. A simple password. Your computer will remember it after the first time you have put it in.
I believe that WinXP requires SP2 to support WAP with it's built-in Wireless Management tool.
I just recently heard a program on NPR where the commentators clearly had absolutely no idea that a wireless network is supposed to be password protected. The "ethics expert" clearly thought that all wireless networks are unprotected.
You really are *supposed* to configure your junk, but most people don't want to mess with something if it's working!
Anyway, it can be a pain to change password/encryption settings while you are connected through a wireless connection, so get a LAN cable to attach to your router while you are managing it.
Re:Logg into router router, and setup WEP
ur manual from your router should help you
what kind of router anyways?
its not all the same for all so, different compaines have different types of software, look at the manual or dl from online.
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