weeyellowbloke Posted November 19, 2006 Posted November 19, 2006 Alrighty, help is needed slightly here. About a week ago our wireless internet went slightly haywire and stopped working, or so we thought. As I was the only one in our house capable of fixing computer like things and I was going away for the week my housemates decided to steal a neighbours conection while I was away (bad I know, but essays needed the internet). So I've got back and decided to try to fix our network. One of my housemates still has access to our network by having a direct cable link to the router, so I went on his and did the 192.168.2.1 thing to get to the router setup screen. This is when I discover that what we thought was the neighbours network was ours all along. The network name is 'belkin 54g- add security luv d...x' when it used to be '260'. We have no idea who 'd' is and our password to change settings on the router no longer works. It definately is ours because we disconnected our router and the network disappeared. Is it possible that someone has somehow got into our router settings, changed the password and hijacked it for themselves. How can we reclaim our network for ourselves if we no longer know the password. It's freaking us all out a bit.
Tom Posted November 19, 2006 Posted November 19, 2006 there should be a reset button on the router. unplug everything, resent the router and start again.
Bogbas Posted November 19, 2006 Posted November 19, 2006 Check out the manufacturer's website and/or the manual on how to perform a full reset. It usually involves keeping the reset button pushed for some period of time and connecting/disconnecting the mains.
Guest Jordan Posted November 20, 2006 Posted November 20, 2006 Yup, as the other two suggested a full reset should solve it.
Bogbas Posted November 20, 2006 Posted November 20, 2006 And for the future disable the ability to change the router's settings from a wirelessly connected pc. And enable the strongest possible encryption on the router+pc's.
Jackster Posted November 20, 2006 Posted November 20, 2006 And for the future disable the ability to change the router's settings from a wirelessly connected pc. And enable the strongest possible encryption on the router+pc's. But if you plan on using a Nintendo DS with the router then unfortuantely you can only go up to 128-bit WEP encryption. A few tips for keeping secure are: 1. Change the default SSID of the router to something else. I.e. change 'belkin 54g' to something totally different like 'weeyellowbloke' 2. Disable SSID Broadcasting. This means that average Joe won't even know your router is there unless he uses a special tool, but aslong as you know the SSID you can still connect. 3. Change the default router password to something else, ideally containing a mixture of uppercase and lowercase letters (aA-zZ), numbers (0-9) and special characters (!@£$%^&*?) 4. Enable 128-bit WEP encryption.
Emasher Posted November 25, 2006 Posted November 25, 2006 well i would unplug the router reset it and then re set it up but with security.
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