"peakie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> i've just got a INEXQ NexIP ISW054u 802.11g wireless router. i've got it
> working fine for the static pc's and my lodgers lap top can connect -
> we're having to use a external belkin usb thing with ariels. cos he's a
> teacher and the IT guy at his school has locked the thing down and the
> internal wireless stuf can't see the network.
>
> we have also got the printer - the printer connects directly to the router
> so my pc doesn't have to be on - i think we are printing via IP - the step
> by step guide was very easy to follow!
>
> ive changed the admin password - a guy at a party said i should do that.
> he also said somthing about the default name for somthing else but i
> didn't know what he was on about.
>
> anyway what's the best way to make the wireless bit secure -
> o i think i'd like to be able to share the wireless to people i trust
> like sort of give them the settings and off they go -
>
> o is this possible?
> o a good idea?
>
> i've got a load of students living next door and i don't want them
> knicking my band width.
>
> any help pointing in the right direction would be a real help - i suppose
> a magazine article would be the thing i'm after.
>
> Cheers Richard
>
Sounds like a similar setup to mine! I have a works laptop and a machine
downstairs that connect via wireless and a neighbour who had so much bother
with his dial up that I gave a wireless NIC and let him use my network to
connect to the net.
Now, nice as he his, I don't like the idea of another user being able to
browse my network so needed someway to let him access the internet but keep
him separate from my internal net. Fortunately I had an old pc and a WAP so
I downloaded ZoneCD from
http://www.publicip.net/ and put another NIC in the
old machine. So he connects his machines through that, while I set up the
wireless router to only accept the MAC addresses of my own machines. The
latest ZoneCD 5.1 will also let you control the bandwidth for each user you
allow on. It will run on a low end machine as long as it can boot from CD.
It doesn't even need a hard drive - just a CD and floppy.
Now I'm thinking, students, beer, internet access. You could have viable
trading options here lol.
I guess the 'default name' that your friend was talking about would've been
the login for the router. I was amazed, when out of curiosity, I did a scan
of IP's for port 80 (http). I found a load of routers, open to the internet,
with default logins. If I had been nasty, I could've denied the users access
from their own routers! So have a look at your router settings. Disable
remote management and change the login name and password. Enable encryption
(WEP at least, WPA if supported). Set up access to only those machines you
know and trust.
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