[size="5"][/size] i tink the best way is still to use a IPPT cable to link to ur com hahaha stop using a router

Lol.

I think that Ethernet routers are better than wireless due to a host of reasons. They're more secure, reliable and cheaper, at least generally cheaper.

Where the heck did that come from???? I wasn't sterotyping anyone by their equipment. I simply used the terminology my Cisco instructor used. I too have a linksys and it's default login is changed. I don't have anything AGAINST Linksys. I use their products all the time. I actually just recently bought a Linksys wireless adapter for my laptop. It's "fake" in the terms of how much you can do with it. I have myself a Linux router that I can do all sorts of cool stuff with. I can also diagose network problems easier too because I can actually see the ARP table. I wish I could play with the ACLs, but I guess that is a feature only with the expensive routers.

And I'm going to take offense to "Almighty NightFox, Ruler of the Internet Definitions Council" because you're mad that I said that people who generally own Linksys aren't smart. Well, I apologize. I should have said if they own any type of home-router, they probably weren't smart. Lets take a wireless roam on my street... hmm 2 unsecured, 4 secured including my own access point. The secured ones are probably less secure than you think. People will think using their street address or name is secure. No, it isn't. These are the same people who will throw documents with their social security number and other sensitive information away in the trash and wonder why they were suddenly a victim of identity theft.

Now I really think you should take back all your smart reply. Until you start taking networking exams and studying for your CEHE, Network+, and CCNA, you can't make it seem like I don't know what I'm talking about because I do. My favorite book I own is "Networking Basics" from Cisco. And before you bash me for reading a "basics" book, think again. This is a book for CCNA1.

I'm through with your kiddie games.

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This post has been edited by nightfox: Jun 18 2007, 01:35 PM

The easiest way to do it is to install DD-WRT or a linux based firmware that allows you to lock down the configuration interface to the WIRED ports on the router. Then you have physical access control.

I can confirm that most people don't either read the manuals, or don't bother. No matter what company i buy from, they generally don't use protection of any significance. Even when I bought a shipment of computers from Ocean, all of them had passwords on the user accounts (they were pre-loaded) but the administrator accounts were wide open. I had specifically asked them to secure it. Having a router installed at the center was the same thing. when i went to check on it, there was no password on it. And this extends to lots of companies. I can drive down Sharah Faisal with the laptop on and pick up 5 or 6 open company networks at any time. Forget cracking them, half of them have no protection whatsoever. I even found a bank that had SSID broadcasting, and they were only using WEP. Across the street a friend of mine is near the Chinese embassy, and he uses their internet connection because there's no security on that either.

For a wireless home network, a better idea for securing your LAN - to be used in conjunction with good password strength - is MAC address control.
You are forcing the hacker to do several things:
- guess your password
- guess which MAC addresses are allowed in, out of the electromagnetic soup surrounding him
- try various combinations of spoofed MAC address and password

I am a part time IT Tech and get lots of people asking me to setup wireless networks some of whom ask about how to stop the next door neighbour hijacking thier Internet connection so I have been doing a lot of research on Wireless Security.

Before someone can crack your Router password they need to get access to your network so first of all ensure that its encrypted, as suggected above ensure you choose WPA protection as WEP is Soooooo easy to access, all you need is a copy of a Bootable version of Linux on CD and a packet injection capable. Once they are in to your network they don`t need to access your router unless they need to change settings to let them make your internet connection more useable. So use a router password that is rando and change it frequently.
Also as suggested below use MAC filterng and if needs be change the MAC address on your wireless equipment.

A recent client asked me to install his Sky broadband and It was nice to see that Sky are supplying a Netgear Router that comes WPA encrypted out of the box, well done Sky, when doing a wireless test to help people to check whether thier second PC can access thier new router without wires I see so many unencrypted wireless networks but this is coming down, thankfully.

I have become so paranoid that when I moved house and re-setup my PC`s I contemplated only using Ethernet, but Iv`e got over that now.

Yeah, living in an apartment/condo complex I know of a lot of folks who leave the router to default settings. Been handy a couple times when the cable was down, but the DSL folks still had access and I could leech off them. Not exactly ethical, but...

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I would seriously recommend Google-ing for the following terms: "default password router". You should be able to find a list of the default administrator password for the router configuration. On a slightly different note, people are creatures of habit. That is to say that they frequently will choose the same passwords. I have hopped on to a number of locked, wireless networks by using easliy guessable passwords.



Anyway, Google the above terms and that should set you going in the right direction. Whatever you do, stay away from words. Make sure you use random sequences of uppper/lower case letters, numbers, and symbols in your passwords. You can probably even find a random password generator for free.

how to crack router wireless network accecc point?
Cracking Wireless Access Point Password?

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Hello bro,
How to do I can crack neighbour router wireless access point password? thanks

Kent

-question by kent