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Connected to someone elses wireless
Name: Shaun77 Date: July 3, 2004 at 17:54:23 Pacific OS: Win XP Pro CPU/Ram: 1.8 Ghz P4
Comment:
All of a sudden a new connection is available called "NETGEAR" We have a linksys router which I unplugged but I'm still able to connect to the internet using my wireless card through this netgear connection. Am I connected to a neighbors wireless network? Again, my router is unplugged. How is this possible???
Name: MrNiceGuy (by vng2k) Date: July 3, 2004 at 18:02:31 Pacific
Reply:
Well, a wireless router will broadcast the signal to any where in the cover radius. If it have not been protected and secured, anyone can connect to it as part of the network just like the radio broadcast. Here are some thing you can do to prevent un-expected user connect to your wireless network:
1. use WEP as a connect key. 2. Add the MAC address of allowed NIC to the allow list on your router configuration, so only the one on the list will able to connect to your network.
Goodluck
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Response Number 2
Name: karunt Date: July 6, 2004 at 12:00:37 Pacific
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Hey its free internet, Its every war drivers dream to have those unencrypted access points. chances are that when connected, you typed the IP address of your defalt gateway and gave it the username/password of admin/admin you could probably login to their router and see whats up with it.
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Response Number 3
Name: Shaun77 Date: July 6, 2004 at 18:15:37 Pacific
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Whats the default gateway for a netgear router?
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Response Number 4
Name: Shaun77 Date: July 6, 2004 at 19:02:22 Pacific
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Ok, so I was able to access the router setup page. But what can you do with that?
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