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Old Mar 20, 2010 | 02:47 PM
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asking for a friend; he's found an old wireless router called "sitecom" which i have set up for him - but its unsecured

for the life of me i cant remember how to encrypt the wireless router to stop other people connecting to it

any pointers?
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Old Mar 20, 2010 | 02:52 PM
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i had to reset mine today and change the name that everyone could see to "get your own net u cheap cunt" lol but i had the cd to set it all up and secure it so sorry im no real help buddy,

try goggle? i love goggle lol
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Whats the model of the router?
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Old Mar 20, 2010 | 03:06 PM
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Whats the model of the router?

pass; i have no idea - i will try and find out later when i go round
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Originally Posted by Dar-rst
i had to reset mine today and change the name that everyone could see to "get your own net u cheap cunt" lol but i had the cd to set it all up and secure it so sorry im no real help buddy,

try goggle? i love goggle lol
yeah; this has no software/ set up disc with it
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Old Mar 20, 2010 | 03:11 PM
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You dont need a disk. You need to find the routers address, it will be something like 192.168.0.1 and the user name and password are usually default to admin+admin.

Once your in, just look for security settings
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Originally Posted by p17fld
You dont need a disk. You need to find the routers address, it will be something like 192.168.0.1 and the user name and password are usually default to admin+admin.

Once your in, just look for security settings
cheers, i shall have a butchers
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