I have an open network and i live in brooklyn new york, so houses are pretty close together. I like to keep my network open because everyone in my house has their own PC/laptop/pocket pc/ or both. And most of them are computer illiterate and can only use simple applications. Its also a fairly big house so i use also use another router as an accesspoint. The problem is people keep connecting to my router and eating up my bandwidth and i want to teach them a lesson or just ban them from my router. My router doesnt have a banning option, it has a block option, but its retarded, because i have to put in the mac addresses of all the internet enabled devices i want to allow and not allow on the network and then select the ones i want to allow block and I have way too many devices that use the router and dont want to piss anyone off in the house. I've tried putting passwords on the both the router and the access point but people still log in as admin, and i am unable to change the admin passwords. I wouldn't mind them using my internet if they weren't limewireing porn and god only knows what else all the time. Thanks. So tell me, how can i punish these jerks
Hey I have an Idea. Does it tell you the list of all of the IP addressses connected to your internet? If it does go to some website and trace their IP address to their location. The you'll know who it is. Then talk to them about it or buy a new router. ps.. you can always kill them.. lol
It gives me the router assigned ip and the mac address for example: 192.168.3.6 Shubert-2 00:14:51:ec:7e:53
I don't see why this is such a problem. You need to change the admin password, and use the MAC address feature. Once the MAC addresses are setup it doesn't have to be done again. And if you do miss any MAC addresses just go and add them. If your router only supports WEP i'd understand why you're fedup but these days most routers have WPA and variations of WPA. I use WPA on my router and ALL PC's (i have something like 10 or 12 MAC addresses configured). hoke1015 - that ridiculous sig is taking up my entire screen. Signatures 1. Text-only signatures should have at most 5 lines of text. 2. An image-only signature should be less than 50kb in size, and be at most 500 pixels wide and 200 pixels tall. 3. If you use an animated picture in the signature, it should not be too distractive. Eg. blinking images or images with quick movement are not allowed. 4. If you want to use both text and image in your signature the image should not be more than 500 pixels wide and 100 pixels tall, and you can use up to three lines of text.
