Optimist your right I agree with your statement.

I have become a bit paranoid recently about wifi (which I dont like much) due to the number of routers I can see from my house in Hasting, last time I counted it was 10.

I am not a big fan of homeplug (devolo etc) however recently I have been using the new 200MB version and in my view its brilliant!

Thanks for responses folks.

Ian. Yes! That's the one. Haha. I was looking for incorrect header. Ta v much. 5 on the way - should arrive on your C drive soon. :-)

Just to touch on the wireless security issues again.

While WEP is not secure from the properly equipped wireless hacker, I'd rather use it than nothing. Quite a bit of traffic has to be captured to crack the encryption key. What's more, someone has to target you and really want to read your traffic. They also have to be close to you.

Just as important is to shut down your router to allow access only by the MAC addresses of your own equipment. For example, using a Netgear router, if you

go to "Wireless Settings"

and select "Wireless Station Access List", click on the button "Setup Access List"

then check the box "Turn Access Control on"

Lower down that same page, the router will display the names and MAC addresses of all the wireless devices it can see. You just have to "Add" your devices to the "Trusted Wireless Stations" list and delete any you don't like.

Again, MAC addresses can be forged by interlopers, but the balance of probabilities of someone encountering your short-range wireless network and who has both the skills and motivation to bother are very low.

MM. I'm having problems getting to the Netgear wireless settings. I'm opening with 192.168.0.1 and it's asking for username and password. I've entered these as detailed in the manual but they are unrecognised. Anyway round the password problem?

Complete reset of the router probably Bolshi, but then you will need to do a completely new setup, and will lose all your old settings.

Bolshi

I guess it's too late now, but the Netgear and most other users allow you to save your setup to hard disk. If you have done this, all you need to do is reset the device and restore from backup.

Also, the deffault username for the Netgear router is "admin" - in lower case.

Opt,

"all you need to do is reset the device and restore from backup."

I wish I'd know that two weeks ago. I stupidly held a pin in the re-set button for more than the statutory five seconds and then had to re-configure. The problem with anything you only do every two or three years is remembering all the things you discovered by trial and error the last time and failed to make decent notes about.

Presumably once you have made contact with the 'factory defaulted' router there is a re-load icon you can click?

TP

TP

Yes there is. On the Netgear router it's under the Maintainence heading. The other useful one under that heading is 'Router Upgrade' for updateing to the latest firmware.

Thanks Opt,

I am paranoid when I go into those menus as I always worry about altering something incorrectly and letting it get saved - but maybe your suggestion of saving the setting is a protection at least.

TP

Bolshi

By default, they are 'admin' and 'sky' for username and password

Did you install the system or did Sky? If Sky, then they may have changed it.

Haystack. My manual said admin & Sky. But it doesn't work.

Bolshi, try 'password' in lower case for the password, that is the Netgear default. Also try various combinations of case, Sky, sky, etc.

Haystack. My manual said admin & Sky. But it doesn't work.

You have posted Sky. You have to enter 'sky'. All lower case.

I'm afraid not. password & sky with all case permutations tried - no success.

bolshi

You might like to try the following:-

Login to your router via Internet Explorer

http://192.168.0.1/

default username=admin
default password=sky

Scroll the lefthand menu down to 'UPnP'
Click on it
In the next window UNtick the box 'Turn UPnP On'

If it is already unticked, sorry, but you probably have some other kind of problem.

Now how is he going to do that Doc if he can't log in :-)

Must be some other kind of problem...?

:-)

Cracked it!

It was admin & admin

Thanks everyone.

Edit: Now I've forgot what I was trying to do :-))))))

So there you go, eh?

Simple speeling pistakes. :-)

Netgear Default Passwords

Bolshi

First things to do:-

1 Change password.
2 Make sure remote admin is dissabled.
3 Back up your settings.
4 Update firmware - even on a new router.