Nedd some advice with regards to IP address and credit card fraud

espresso

Do you not understand DON'T USE WEP as it's next to useless!

joeypesci

Stolt I'd just ignore espresso. I've come to find there are loads of disrespect people on this forum, that's the problem with unmoderated sites. However, if it was moderated then it would probably be moderated to heavy handedly.

Also it's in the nature of some techys Arrogant twonks they are to act like that. I can safely say that as I'm an IT Technician by day and have to deal with some just like that.

Anyway. Only thing that espresso is right in saying is WEP is crap you need to change it.

The box you've given the image too is just the settings on your laptop. Changing those settings won't change the router.

This may get complicated. Do you have any tech friends who can do it for you?

Looking at that box I assume you're using Vista?

Click Start, in the search field type CMD, then click the cmd.exe that is found.

In the black box that appears type IPConfig. Note down the numbers next to Default Gateway. That's the IP address of your router.

Now in IE or Firefox if you use that, in the address bar type the IP address. Probably is

192.168.0.1

Then you should have access to your O2 router. You'll need to use the manual to and it should tell you where the WIFI security settings are.

May look like this

http://media.photobucket.com/image/o2%20router/purplelime/router.jpg

Then set the security to WPA2 and give it a long password with numbers. Cracking a long key can take days so most people don't bother and move on to a less secure network to hack into.

Then vista should pick up the changes you made to your wifi and should see the wifi access point again. When you try to connect it should ask for the password and allow you to connect.

stolt

joeypesci wrote: »

Stolt I'd just ignore espresso. I've come to find there are loads of disrespect people on this forum, that's the problem with unmoderated sites. However, if it was moderated then it would probably be moderated to heavy handedly.

Also it's in the nature of some techys Arrogant twonks they are to act like that. I can safely say that as I'm an IT Technician by day and have to deal with some just like that.

Anyway. Only thing that espresso is right in saying is WEP is crap you need to change it.

The box you've given the image too is just the settings on your laptop. Changing those settings won't change the router.

This may get complicated. Do you have any tech friends who can do it for you?

Looking at that box I assume you're using Vista?

Click Start, in the search field type CMD, then click the cmd.exe that is found.

In the black box that appears type IPConfig. Note down the numbers next to Default Gateway. That's the IP address of your router.

Now in IE or Firefox if you use that, in the address bar type the IP address. Probably is

192.168.0.1

Then you should have access to your O2 router. You'll need to use the manual to and it should tell you where the WIFI security settings are.

May look like this

http://media.photobucket.com/image/o2%20router/purplelime/router.jpg

Then set the security to WPA2 and give it a long password with numbers. Cracking a long key can take days so most people don't bother and move on to a less secure network to hack into.

Then vista should pick up the changes you made to your wifi and should see the wifi access point again. When you try to connect it should ask for the password and allow you to connect.

Hi there thanks for the detailed response I did what u said and changed the router to show wpa and put the password in, now I have a red cross on the manage network and says "the settings on this computer for this network do not match the requirements of the network" tried changing back to shared and it still won't work (typing this from my phone excuse spellings)

buglawton

£200 of small transactions is actually an awful lot of transactions to go unnoticed! BlahDVD etc. must also reveal the account details of the transactions - email address, postal address used for the orders - under it's agreement with the Credit Card co.

I would just insist on a refund from the CC co - they are never going to tell you all what they know anyway.

stolt

Sti can't get my broadband to work, anyone know if I can reset to how it was when it was set up?

DCFC79

stolt wrote: »

Sti can't get my broadband to work, anyone know if I can reset to how it was when it was set up?

i believe you can reset it, Should you forget your password to access the router do not panic there is a way to reset it. You will need to use of a paper clip or similar tool.

When you look at the back of your O2 wireless box you will notice a small hole on the right above 'Reset'.

Insert a paper clip into the hole until you feel the click of a button.

Hold the button down with the paperclip until you see the power light on the O2 wireless box turn red.

Remove the paper clip and let the O2 wireless box return the full power. Once all of the lights have come back on it will be set to how it was when you first received it and you can follow the steps again to change the password.

taken from here

stolt

DCFC79 wrote: »

i believe you can reset it, Should you forget your password to access the router do not panic there is a way to reset it. You will need to use of a paper clip or similar tool.

When you look at the back of your O2 wireless box you will notice a small hole on the right above 'Reset'.

Insert a paper clip into the hole until you feel the click of a button.

Hold the button down with the paperclip until you see the power light on the O2 wireless box turn red.

Remove the paper clip and let the O2 wireless box return the full power. Once all of the lights have come back on it will be set to how it was when you first received it and you can follow the steps again to change the password.

taken from here

thankyou,thankyou just sent that link to my work so i can print it off tomorrow, its working again using the seral number as the password, unfortunatley its gone back to wep again. perhaps somewhere like pc world could sort out the security for me, im running mcafee and ive scanned it again looked in the security box and its showing it has deleted 4 potential problems.

got some time on my hands this afternoon so i will google setting up security and see if i can get it round my head so i understand what i'm actually doing and what it means.
thanks

DCFC79

stolt, have a read of this, whatever passphrase u use make a note of it, dont worry about espresso hes just having an off day, what firewall do you have, any other questions feel free to ask

espresso

DCFC79 wrote: »

stolt, have a read of this, whatever passphrase u use make a note of it, dont worry about espresso hes just having an off day, what firewall do you have, any other questions feel free to ask

Wind your neck in, I'm not having an off day at all. Anyone who can type on here can read, even their own credit card statements when they actually receive them, not months later!

:rolleyes:

DCFC79

espresso wrote: »

Wind your neck in, I'm not having an off day at all. Anyone who can type on here can read, even their own credit card statements when they actually receive them, not months later!

:rolleyes:

people make mistakes, ive had some fraudulent transactions made on my card and yes i didnt check my statement but whats done is done, stolt is dealing with it,