WTF would this mean??

[hzsogood 5,000+ posts]

I just got my wireless hookked up this morning but a few minutes ago my pccillin security popped up and said that there are other networks and or computers connected to my network?

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[Wowimzz 10+ year member]

yes. this happens often if you do not set a password up to your router. Since the ip for your router is... 192.168.1.1 and your password is admin. anyone can get into it.. ie: people driving down the road with laptops, neighbors with wireless pc cards.. try getting into your routers ip and change your password. should stop all that nonsense.

 

[Lowjacker 10+ year member]

check your network connections under your control panel and make sure it only lists authorized comps.....if there's any you don't recognise delete it from the network.....

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

just ignore it; it will probably go away.

 

[hzsogood 5,000+ posts]

yes. this happens often if you do not set a password up to your router. Since the ip for your router is... 192.168.1.1 and your password is admin. anyone can get into it.. ie: people driving down the road with laptops, neighbors with wireless pc cards.. try getting into your routers ip and change your password. should stop all that nonsense.

my user is admin, not my password.. Can this mess up my computer or what.. I live in the woods around mostly older ppl.. Not like im in the city or anything

 

[hzsogood 5,000+ posts]

For a good two months we werent paying for internet but we still had it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif neighbors with unprotected wireless routers ftw

well mines secured with a default gateway so wouldnt that mean they would have to get through my modem/router/firewall to get anything..

 

[bonesninja 5,000+ posts]

find out who they are and take them to court

 

[hzsogood 5,000+ posts]

does it make any sense that my signal strength went from very strong to low after this happened?

 

[bonesninja 5,000+ posts]

does it make any sense that my signal strength went from very strong to low after this happened?

yes they are stealing your bandwidth

 

[hzsogood 5,000+ posts]

yes they are stealing your bandwidth

my wifi is secured , is there anything i can do to get it back?

 

[bonesninja 5,000+ posts]

my wifi is secured , is there anything i can do to get it back?

reboot and re-establish your connection

 

[hzsogood 5,000+ posts]

ive restarted 3 times now... still low.. Its been good or very good all dday, until that happened.. Or do i need to do something else? sorry , yes i am computer stupid.. It takes a few minutes for me to get it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif sorry

 

[hzsogood 5,000+ posts]

anybody???

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

if it's linksys, you can actually adjust it.

maybe it just got f'ed with by accident?

Or maybe it automatically cut your signal down to avoid people from getting on?

IMO, secured networks are a PITA. a better way to do it, is to restrict the IP adressed that can log on, and limit it to 1 connection per IP, so cloning isn't an issue.

 

[hzsogood 5,000+ posts]

if it's linksys, you can actually adjust it.
maybe it just got f'ed with by accident?

Or maybe it automatically cut your signal down to avoid people from getting on?

IMO, secured networks are a PITA. a better way to do it, is to restrict the IP adressed that can log on, and limit it to 1 connection per IP, so cloning isn't an issue.

makes complete sense .. Just wish i knew how to do it:crap: