We have a wireless router at home for three of us and we think neighbours are connecting to our router also as we are on a fast internet but at times it suffers extreme slowdown. As in we normally get 500 kb/s downloads and they go down to as low as 30 kb/s. We download from the same server for our band all the time and always get 500 kb/s so we know when it slows down it is a problem with our router.
How do you go about securing the wireless network? We have a Sitecom Router.
2007-01-17 05:55:04 · 2 answers · asked by kewlguitarist 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
There are a couple of ways you can do this. First, see if there is a setting in your router's configuration (see the manual if you are not familiar with the config) where you can turn off your SSID. This way, if your neighbors are using your internet, they won't even be able to see your network in the list of available ones they can connect to.
Second, set up a WPA Key for your router. Think of it as a really long password that people will need to access your network.
Third, turn on MAC address filtering. But, you will have to find all the MAC addresses for your computers, etc. to enter in as well. This will only allow things with a certain MAC address to connect to your network.
If you do all three, I guarantee your neighbors will not be slowing down your connection anymore!
2007-01-17 06:07:02 · answer #1 · answered by Firegrl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's not much point in hiding yr SSID now! Yr neighbours must know it if they are connecting to it! If you hide it, they can still connect. Change it instead! Also change yr admin password...
2007-01-17 06:20:37 · answer #2 · answered by sleakitweasel1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋