Can I make kids pc only get my Wifi and not neighbors?

I have a Linksys wireless G router and my kids have Linksys wireless USB
adapters. They always pick up my neighbor's signal instead of mine. I want
to be able to shut off their web access when I am not home or when they've
been on long enough, but they can just surf with my neighbor's signal. Is
there any way I can configure their PC's to only accept my broadcast? Or is
there a program I can use to accomplish this?

Yes, I could just tell the neighbor to lock down his signal but honestly I
don't know which neighbor it is and there are a lot of houses around me.
Plus he probably won't know how to configure it anyway.

Thanks!

--

Aaron

> Yes, I could just tell the neighbor to lock down his signal but
> honestly I don't know which neighbor it is and there are a lot of
> houses around me. Plus he probably won't know how to configure it
> anyway.


I would think your neigbor, would like to know that teenagers are using
his unsecured network..... before he gets a supoena from the RIAA, rather
than afterward.



Ed

If you are using winXP, you could config the wireless network to not
automatically connect to an any wifi access point, but to connect only to a
particular ESSID. If you are not using WEP, use it.

You would need to set this up in administrator account and not let the kids
reconfig it. But you should assume they would find a way around it, if they
are teenagers.

If you use a directional antenna with a laptop, you can probably pinpoint
where the open wifi signal is coming from. Or just walk around and home in
where the signal is strongest.

-peter

"Aaron" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:GqOdnX5b-ZLi-eXcRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I have a Linksys wireless G router and my kids have Linksys wireless USB
>adapters. They always pick up my neighbor's signal instead of mine. I want
>to be able to shut off their web access when I am not home or when they've
>been on long enough, but they can just surf with my neighbor's signal. Is
>there any way I can configure their PC's to only accept my broadcast? Or is
>there a program I can use to accomplish this?
>
> Yes, I could just tell the neighbor to lock down his signal but honestly I
> don't know which neighbor it is and there are a lot of houses around me.
> Plus he probably won't know how to configure it anyway.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
>
> Aaron
>
>

"peter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:zv2ed.4022$7d7.15@trnddc04...
> If you are using winXP, you could config the wireless network to not
> automatically connect to an any wifi access point, but to connect only to
a
> particular ESSID. If you are not using WEP, use it.
>
> You would need to set this up in administrator account and not let the
kids
> reconfig it. But you should assume they would find a way around it, if
they
> are teenagers.
>
> If you use a directional antenna with a laptop, you can probably pinpoint
> where the open wifi signal is coming from. Or just walk around and home in
> where the signal is strongest.
>
> -peter
>
> "Aaron" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:GqOdnX5b-ZLi-eXcRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I have a Linksys wireless G router and my kids have Linksys wireless USB
> >adapters. They always pick up my neighbor's signal instead of mine. I
want
> >to be able to shut off their web access when I am not home or when
they've
> >been on long enough, but they can just surf with my neighbor's signal. Is
> >there any way I can configure their PC's to only accept my broadcast? Or
is
> >there a program I can use to accomplish this?
> >
> > Yes, I could just tell the neighbor to lock down his signal but honestly
I
> > don't know which neighbor it is and there are a lot of houses around me.
> > Plus he probably won't know how to configure it anyway.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --
> >
> > Aaron
> >
> >
>
>
Would it be possible to set your home network up on an uncommonly used
private IP address scheme, such as, oh, say, 10.0.14.168 subnet mask
255.255.255.248? (download a free copy of Solarwinds advanced subnet
calculator to get others). This would give your network address ranges from
10.0.14.169 to 10.0.14.174. After configging your G router in this address
block, disabling DHCP server on the router, you could go into your password
protected admin account on the kids PC's and hard-set their IP addresses to
ones within that block. I think, and I may be wrong here, that if they still
saw the neighbor's networks, they would very unlikely be able to hook up to
them because their PC's would not be able to get a DHCP address from the
neighbor Access Point because the kids are hard-set to only your network's
address scheme.

If I'm way off on this, somebody let me know. I have not tried this but as
long as the kids PCs are within the address parameters of the address and
subnet, and the router IP address (usually the first useable in the
subnet--in the above case 10.0.14.169) is set as default gateway on the kids
PCs, you should have a workable network and I THINK the kids would be unable
to surf a random network, as they would be restricted to only their hard-set
subnet. The key thing would be to disallow the kids access to the admin
account and any ability to set their PC back to DHCP.

Another thing you could do is, if the wireless hardware's software setting
allows, restrict the kids PC's USB adaptors to G only--this might cut down
some connection possibilities if the neighbors are on B only. They could
change this easily though if they figured it out.

"peter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:zv2ed.4022$7d7.15@trnddc04...
> If you are using winXP, you could config the wireless network to not
> automatically connect to an any wifi access point, but to connect only to
> a particular ESSID. If you are not using WEP, use it.

How would I do this? Thanks!

"Aaron" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:ZuSdnaYWn4KvQ-TcRVn-(E-Mail Removed):

>
> "peter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:zv2ed.4022$7d7.15@trnddc04...
>> If you are using winXP, you could config the wireless network to not
>> automatically connect to an any wifi access point, but to connect
>> only to a particular ESSID. If you are not using WEP, use it.
>
> How would I do this? Thanks!
>
>
>

Your kids will eventually defeat that. You need to talk to your kids about
not taking advantage of the situation.

Duane

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:29:59 -0400, in alt.internet.wireless , "Aaron"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>"peter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:zv2ed.4022$7d7.15@trnddc04...
>> If you are using winXP, you could config the wireless network to not
>> automatically connect to an any wifi access point, but to connect only to
>> a particular ESSID. If you are not using WEP, use it.
>
>How would I do this? Thanks!

Double-click on the wireless network icon in the taskbar, select "view
wireless networks", then select "change order of referred networks" from
the menu on the right. Delete your neighbour's networks from the list.

Your machine will now automatically connect to your wlan by preference. The
neighbour's wlan will still show up in the list of possible networks, but
your machine will automatically connect to yours first.

I've not tried it, but if you do this using an admin acct, and ensure your
kids use only restricted accounts, they should not be able to change it
back easily.

Of course, they could still manually connect to the neighbour's network.
The only fix ofr that is to get your neighbour to put security in place.
--
Mark McIntyre
CLC FAQ <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html>
CLC readme: <http://www.ungerhu.com/jxh/clc.welcome.txt>


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