Internet Banking Fraud

ucsd_ucla_dad
Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:42:51 +0000

I live in a very small town and it is not likely any one would be sitting on our dead end street stealing wireless;

I don’t know - a car was stolen on a dead end street near me the other night.



I have a couple of neighbors who are part timers and I left my router unlocked to allow them part time wireless, but now I am reconsidering the intelligence of this

You should secure your router to protect yourself. You shouldn’t let your neighbors piggy-back onto yours unless it’s okay to do so by your service provider. Allowing your neighbors to piggy-back onto your connection is the same as ‘stealing cable’ that’s done by some people. It’s effectively preventing the service provider from being able to do business with those people. Anyway, you might want to check the legalities of your contract with your provider.



but darned if I can login to my router to make the change.

Many routers allow you to login by just browsing to them on a fixed IP address. If you didn’t change the default user/password you can try the defaults.

Linksys: browse to 192.168.1.1 and use ‘admin’ as the user and ‘admin’ as the password (without the apostrophes).

DLink: 192.168.0.1 and use ‘admin’ as the user and leave the password blank. If that doesn’t work use admin for both user and password.

Netgear: 192.168.0.1 and use ‘admin’ for the user and ‘password’ for the password.

By the way, the identity thieves already know all this info.

There are usually a few choices on the security to use but one of them is WEP security. With this you can set a long hex (0-9, A-F) number (like 26 characters) into the router and then each laptop, iPhone, or other system trying to access it would also need to be set with the same number.