wireless become unsecured

Lagerlegs

was using wireless internet fine yesterday morning (I have a Belkin) and was secured, then today tried to get on internet (I have broadband) and said no connection, when I looked there are 3 wireless connections in the area, (one of them used to be mine), there are now still 3 but one of them (which I think is still mine) is unsecured and is just named belkin, how can that happen, and how do I re-secure, I have techno fear so need reply in simple terms please, if anyone can help I'd be really grateful, thanks in advance.

Browntoa

make sure it is yours by turning off your Belkin router...you won't lose the settings

then refresh the wireless networks list

Lagerlegs

Thank you Browntoa, done as you suggested and it seems to me mine alright, can't understand how it's become unsecured,

albertross_2

how did you secure it before?

rrwfotr

What may of happened is that turning it off it may have been reset the router to factory default where as the configuration would need to be reinputted as that information would need to be resumitted in order to reconnect your adsl line back onto the internet. If you didnt need the configure the router then some one may of hacked your wirless connection and turned the security off. In that case reconfigure your router to not broadcast your SSID (wireless name) input and enable mac address filtering (that is only all pc's that you no about) to connect Also use wpa security instead of wep as wep is easily hacked and do not use a easy password people can quess.....

Lagerlegs

albertross wrote:

how did you secure it before?

my teenage son did it for me, but he's away for the weekend.

rrwfotr

Lagerlegs wrote:

my teenage son did it for me, but he's away for the weekend.

I would not use an unsecured line as anyone could be using your link (downloading dodgy stuff on your line). If I were you, I would go to http://www.belkin.com and download the configuration guide to reconfigure the security on your router.

Lagerlegs

rrwfotr wrote:

What may of happened is that turning it off it may have been reset the router to factory default where as the configuration would need to be reinputted as that information would need to be resumitted in order to reconnect your adsl line back onto the internet. If you didnt need the configure the router then some one may of hacked your wirless connection and turned the security off. In that case reconfigure your router to not broadcast your SSID (wireless name) input and enable mac address filtering (that is only all pc's that you no about) to connect Also use wpa security instead of wep as wep is easily hacked and do not use a easy password people can quess.....

Thank you for your reply I will try and look to reconfigure it now.

Lagerlegs

rrwfotr wrote:

I would not use an unsecured line as anyone could be using your link (downloading dodgy stuff on your line). If I were you, I would go to http://www.belkin.com and download the configuration guide to reconfigure the security on your router.

Thank you I'll try now

albertross_2

There is a guide of the principles involved here:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=2471408&postcount=37

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=2471410&postcount=38

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=121274




wire it up using an ethernet cable, and goto 192.168.2.1 in ie for belkin, the passwords are at the bottom of the second link.

Lagerlegs

Thank you Albatross, when I look at my wireless network connections mine is there with a red cross through it, along with the belkin one that also seems to be mine.