Steps Needed to Secure Router

26 Jan 2007 4:17 PM

paparulez

I recently bought a Netgear Rangemax wireless router and, with their CD,
easily set it up in an unsecure environment. I now want to secure it so that
it's protected against invasion. I again used their CD to do it but got
terribly confused, not knowing what "keys" were, nor the selection for type
of encryption that is best for me (I don't want to jump through hoops just to
log in to access the internet ... just get it secured against invasion and
spying, and to keep the neighbors from accessing it). When I thought I was
done, I tested it on my wireless laptop. It showed the network name we had
provided, but asked that a profile be set up. We did our best to reply to
the questions (as best as one can be when he doesn't know what he's doing),
but when I was finished I received a message that the profile was invalid.
This shouldn't be brain surgery. I returned the router status to unsecured.
Please provide steps I can follow ... hopefully through Windows Networking
instead of Netgear's site ... so that each of our computers will be
accessible only to those for whom permission is provided. Thank you in
advance.

26 Jan 2007 6:18 PM

Jack (MVP-Networking).

Hi

Wireless security does only one thing it encrypt the information from the
Wireless computer to the Wireless Router/Access Point, so that other people
cannot intercept or invade the connection.

It does not affect or relate in any way to Internet or Internet security.

It is much better to spend a little time learning through the manual how to
configure the security manually and not to use the Wizards CDs.

The CD usually has a PDF file that includes the extended manual and would
explain how to configure the Wireless security

May be this can Help too.

Wireless Security - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Security.html

Jack (MVP-Networking).

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"paparulez" <ba***@brasg.net.(dontspam)> wrote in message
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>I recently bought a Netgear Rangemax wireless router and, with their CD,
> easily set it up in an unsecure environment. I now want to secure it so
> that
> it's protected against invasion. I again used their CD to do it but got
> terribly confused, not knowing what "keys" were, nor the selection for
> type
> of encryption that is best for me (I don't want to jump through hoops just
> to
> log in to access the internet ... just get it secured against invasion and
> spying, and to keep the neighbors from accessing it). When I thought I
> was
> done, I tested it on my wireless laptop. It showed the network name we
> had
> provided, but asked that a profile be set up. We did our best to reply to
> the questions (as best as one can be when he doesn't know what he's
> doing),
> but when I was finished I received a message that the profile was invalid.
> This shouldn't be brain surgery. I returned the router status to
> unsecured.
> Please provide steps I can follow ... hopefully through Windows Networking
> instead of Netgear's site ... so that each of our computers will be
> accessible only to those for whom permission is provided. Thank you in
> advance.