Netgear MR814 Wireless Security Recommendations

Once you have completed the basic setup on your Netgear MR814 it’s time to secure it from hackers. Why does the wireless network require more security setup than the basic wired router? Because the nature of wireless means that users can connect to your network from anywhere in the vicinity of your Access Point, including the street out in front or around the corner from your house. Without turning on extra security people you don’t know can and will use your wireless network to gain anonymous access to the Internet and possibly break into the computers you have in your house. Anything these users do on the Internet through your house can be traced back to you, not them.

Since controlling who has access try to talk to your wireless Access Point is all but impossible you can take steps to make sure that anyone who attempts to communicate with your network will not be able to have any sort of meaningful communications with it. Click ‘Next’ below and we’ll show you how to make your wireless network a much harder target for hackers to attack.

**NOTE** Please make sure to read the instructions for each step thoroughly before implementing any of them as you are likely to lose connection to the router several times during this process as changes are applied.

To begin with, log into your wireless router by opening your web browser and going to http://192.168.0.1. The web page will prompt you for a username and password. To begin with, this is set to the default of:

Username: admin

Password: password

Once you type those in and click ‘Ok’ you should see the following page:......

More info: http://www.uth.tmc.edu/itsecurity/wireless/wirelessSecuritySteps.html

Slow wireless connection

Hi All,

I recently purchased a Netgear WGR614v6 wireless router to connect my windows xp laptop wirelessly to my cable modem (Motorola SB5101). Though my router is placed very near to my laptop, I'm not get the full 54mbps connection between my wireless pc card (Viewsonic wireless pc card) and router. At times I do get the connection speed as 54mbps but then it drops down to as low as 1mbps sometimes. I have the following questions:

1. Why does the connection drop to such a low speed even the distance between my modem and laptop is just only in feet? (Note: I have no cordless phones or microwaves nearby.)

2. My internet connection (4Mbps cable) tends to be very slow when connected wirelessly even when the connection speed between my router and my laptop is 54mbps. But it's fast when my laptop is directly connected to my cable modem. Why is this so?

It would be great if someone helps me out asap on the above two queries.

regds
csnarain

You might be getting interference from someone else in your neighborhood running on the same channel . Try changing channels , the best ones to use are 1, 6, or 11 .
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