My neighbors are stealing my internet and i need to block them without confrontation?

i have windows vista with a linksys router, my internet provider is windstream. one of my neighbors is stealing my internet and is slowing down my speed immensely. how do i block them or add a password to cancel them from using my internet?|||There are several key steps to properly securing your Wireless router.





1) Change the SSID.


2) Turn off SSID broadcast.


3) Change the Administrative password of the router.


4) Enable WPA or WPA2. Use a complex password.


5) Enable MAC address filtering and add your data devices to the ALLOW table of the router.


6) Change the default range of IP addresses to what you actually need.


If you need 4 IP addresses set the DHCP to issue just four. Such as 192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.103


7) Disable remote Administration. This requires that the router be managed by a computer using an Ethernet connection. Not a wireless connection.








Do not use WEP to secure your wireless connections. WEP can be bypassed in 3 minutes or less.





Do put a label on the bottom of your router with the Admin password and the WPA or WPA2 password. This way if you forget it, you can just look at the bottom. If someone else has physical access, they can just look too, but if someone you don't trust has physical access they can just hit the reset button.|||Sounds like your router hasn't been properly configured.





Login to the router by typing 192.168.1.1 into your web browser. If that doesn't get you in, go to the command prompt (start-run-cmd.exe on WinXP; start-run-command.exe on previous Win OSes) and hit enter. Type ipconfig /all and enter the number you have for your Default Gateway into your web browser. You will be required to enter a username and password, so try admin/admin, admin/password, or admin/%26lt;blank password%26gt;. From here, go to wireless, security, and select WPA Personal. *Don't use WEP, or any script kiddie can extract your password with freely available software* Also don't turn off your SSID until your client PCs have already joined the wireless network. You may also use the information from ipconfig/all to record your MAC address of the machine you execute the command on, so be sure to run it on each machine that you want to join the wireless network. AFTER recording your MAC addys, enable MAC filtering in the router and enter your MAC addresses. If you happen to find it difficult to work with an invisible SSID, just rename your SSID to something different - if it's a Linksys, name it Netgear. |||Log into your router and go to the wireless tab. Once there you will see wireless security. Set it to WPA and enter a password. You will need this password for any wireless computers that want to access your network. You can also disable the SSID so no one even sees your network.





To log into your router, open your browser and type 192.168.1.1. By default the user name is blank and the password is admin. You may also want to go to the administration page and change the password for the router. If you cant access the router because you don't know the password there will be a reset button on the back. Hold it in for about 30 seconds. That will reset it. Hope this helps.|||I assume you have your linksys set up for wireless service (you can have done this even though your computers are connected to it by wire). Go to the linksys website or the instructions that came with the device (they vay by model) and follow them very carefully to set up a password protected and if you desire, encrypted transmission. The last time I tried this it was very tedious and full of techno jargon. Perhaps your service provider will provide live person support to walk you through, but my recollection is that linksys itself does not.


Travelling, I very often see unprotected networks named "linksys" (their default name), which tells me many folks simply give up trying to secure their network.


An elegant solution - but costly - is what I did when our linksys network needed re-configuring: I sold the nasty thing on eBay and bought an Apple Airport Extreme which was taken out of its box, connected and configured with password and encryption and running perfectly in about 5 minutes. |||yes, you can (and should) add a password to your wireless router. Typically you do this by accessing the router via your browser (your owner's manual will describe how but it's usually by typing in the IP # of something like 192.168.0.1 or something like that). Once it's secured by a password, nobody will be able to access your wireless without entering the password (including you).





and FYI...technically, your neighbors aren't "stealing" your internet. You are broadcasting directly into their homes and not making any attempt to block the access of it. So you are in effect, giving it out for free to anyone in your area. Don't blame them...blame yourself for not reading your owner's manual on how to set up restricted access to it.|||I agree with the other answers in the sense that the top 2 items to setup are setting a password (WPA or WEP) and not broadcasting your SSID.





One more thing I do is to set MAC filtering. I determine the MAC address of each wireless device I want to connect and configure that on the router.





Note that NONE of these settings provides 100% wireless security. Even the combination of the 3 (which do) can provide 100%. My view is that this makes it just difficult/frustrating enough that Joe Average will move on.





It is likely unintentional that they connected to your router. When you have several wireless access points available, many wireless cards automatically select the strongest signal. Perhaps yours is strongest even though their router is in the same room! These are just possibilities. Implementing the basics outlined here should bump those on your network off and keep you on it.|||ok Open your Internet Explorer or whateva Browser u're usung..


type in: 192.168.1.1 hit Enter


then Leave the LOGIN Empty


Password: Admin


hit Enter again.





and here u go, go to Wi-LAN then Wi-fi Security I guess and set your password for Wi-fi..


Good Luck.!





let me know if you have other Question.|||The instructions that came with your router should tell you how to secure your wireless connection. If you don't have the manual, you can download it from linksys website.