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Hi
Weve had a wireless network for awhile but at the moment its unsecure. Can anyone tell me how to secrue this?

Cheers

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By: BlueRobin - 26th August 2008 at 21:50

As SOC says, you need to know the router and log onto it. This is usually done via a web browser. You may be thinking how do I do this? If the router was provided by your provider, then their website should have instructions on how to. If the router was not, identify your router’s make and model then look on the manufacturer’s website

Read this for terminology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_security

WEP type security is often thougth of as being poor. There is also another downside in that they wireless access keys can be stupidly wrong and in hexadecimal code. WPA is stronger and it is permissible to use an access key that is more meaningful, though don’t make it anything someone can guess. Next door have just got wireless with WPA security and are Liverpool mad… 😉

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By: SOC - 26th August 2008 at 20:40

What kind of wireless router do you have?

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By: stangman - 26th August 2008 at 20:35

When you install the software it should give you the option to set a password, well mine did anyway.
You may have to re-install and set password if you cannot acess any security options from the installed software as is.
Having just read that it sounds weird but hopefully you get my drift. i am sure someone with more knowlegdge than me will be along soon.
HTH

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