Password protect your wireless router

[imported_nautique]

Anybody know how to password protect your wireless router when connecting to it? Live in an condo and neighbors are using my internet for free. They don't want to spend the money since they can pick up mine. I have seen some where you have to write in a password to connect to it? Anybody know how to do this?

Thanks

 

[SaintTigurius]

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.

 

[Ichinisan]

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.

 

[exilera]

You could just use MAC address filtering.

 

[Ichinisan]

Originally posted by: exilera
You could just use MAC address filtering.

That's more troublesome when you have occasional house guests...

 

[JesseKnows]

Ichinisan 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 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.

 

[Mav3N]

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.

 

[imported_nautique]

I have a Linksys Wireless - B model number BEFW11S4
and it says I have Wi-Fi Protected Access.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: JesseKnows
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 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

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

 

[Panthro]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: JesseKnows
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 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

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.

 

[Changlinn]

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...

 

[SaintTigurius]

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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[ktwebb]

"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.

 

[Changlinn]

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.