Anyone have any info and/or links that will help guide me through making my home wireless internet secure? I have Comcast internet, a linksys router, and Windows Vista. I know, I know.....this should have been done when we first moved in. Thanks in advance! ABM
Follow the instructions for your router to log in to it. Typically it's something like http://192.168.0.1. It'll ask you for a username and password. If you haven't changed the password (likely not), it's probably admin or Admin, no username. Once you've logged in, you'll see a nifty set of WWW pages to configure the router to do all sorts of things. I've logged into mine and navigated to the page where you set up the security. See attached image. For my router, security mode is set to WEP and encryption set to 104/128 bit. I've erased the rest of the info in mine, but where it says "key 1" I've entered a 26 digit number (this is like a password, you'll want to write it down and/or remember it). The 26 digits can be any of 0-9 and a-f (those are "hex digits"). Click save settings. Next you'll have to set up your computers. The 2nd screen shot is of my laptop, which is running Linux (ubuntu). Windows has a similar wireless settings dialog (right click net neighborhood/places and select properties)... From there you fill in that 26 digit number you set in the router. Once computer and router are set up to match, you will be able to get on the internet, and your neighbors will be locked out unless you tell them that 26 digit number. If you run into problems, log into the router again and turn off security.
Sorry the pictures are so small they're hard to read. I hope it's enough to get you the info you need anyway ;-)
