[dba-Tech] wireless invasion

Susan,

I would go through it manually.  Any time I hear a family member or friend
who has setup a wireless router, I ask if I can come over and make sure they
have everything setup correctly.  Most of the time, everyone has just run
through the manual or more recently followed the wizard as you did.
However, my father recently bought a newer router and the wizard imported
all the settings from his previous router.  I was impressed with that.  Most
of the time these have been Linksys router, but I have run across a couple
DLink routers.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 9:48 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] wireless invasion

That did it, and I was able to get in using the default admin and "" 
password -- not good. I know that I ran that friggin wizard when I installed

the router! ;(

I don't know whether to run the setup wizard or take the manual route --  
advice? Since I don't know what I'm doing, I'm inclined to use the wizard, 
but I did that before and look where I am!

Susan H.


> Linksys uses 192.168.1.1 for it's default but can be changed. An easy way 
> to
> tell, is to go to the dos prompt (CMD) type IPCONFIG and look at the 
> default
> gateway. That should be the IP address for the router. If you do not have
> the manual, you can usually find the password stuff by typing the model
> number and password in GOOGLE. If you have changed the password and can't
> remember it, you can usually reset the router to it's defaults by pushing 
> a
> button, or other series of events again available on Google.
>
> HTH
>
> Bill
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Erbach" <erbachs at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 3:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] wireless invasion
>
>
> Susan,
>
> Forgot to mention that communicating with your own wireless router via
> browser will require some form of 192.168.0.1.  I have a D-Link
> router.  I believe that Linksys routers use 192.168.1.0 ... in any
> event, something very similar.  The proper IP address should be shown
> in the router's manual.
>
> Steve Erbach
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> I'm using a wireless router to connect to a second computer. The main
>> computer uses cable internet via a regular modem.
>>
>> The second computer is running Vista and almost daily shows activity that
>> isn't mine -- downloads, changes to email preferences -- some weird 
>> stuff.
>> My first thought is that someone's using the wireless connection, but I'm
>> not seeing evidence of this on the main computer -- just the one that
>> actually connects via the wireless.
>>
>> I'm running the Windows firewall and when I installed the wireless 
>> router,
>> I secured it properly.
>>
>> I don't know where to begin to troubleshoot this problem. Any help?
>>
>> Susan H.
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