I simply have a LinkSys Wireless-G Broadband Router (2.4 GHz, 802.11g, etc) connected to apartment's ethernet port, and then the LinkSys Notebook Adaptor installed on my laptop. Pretty damned simple, no other networked devices or anything.
Alright, so there's a whole bunch of people in my building using wireless connections, and I haven't bothered to secure mine and it's frequently becoming unavailable, although if I just connect my laptop to the ethernet port, the connection's all good. So, unless I'm mistaken, basically someone else is likely using my connection. Right?
Now I'm reading the incredibly limited LinkSys support documentation I have, and it's just confusing the hell out of me as to what I'm supposed to do. Some things seem overly complicated, some seem overly simple. And the Windows XP wizard for setting up a wireless network just makes no sense to me.
So... what do I do? I know the SSID (why can't it just be called the network name and make it easy for people?) although I can't seem to figure out how to change it from the default. I see that LinkSys recommends enabling WAP encryption, MAC address filtering, an administrator password which I'm not sure is really relevant to me, and disabling SSID broadcast. I can't seem to even find controls for half of this.
I see something for changing the Network Authenticator to WAP, which then defaults the encryption to AES. That opens up some EAP options, which I have no idea about.
So, now that I've babbled about a ton of shit I don't really understand... anyone have suggestions or a simple fix?
Edit: Oh, and it might be noteworthy that I never truly set up the router. I just plugged the damn thing in because the setup was solely focused on a network and wanted me to do things that weren't possible or relevant given my intention on just using it to link my laptop and broadband connection.
Alright, so there's a whole bunch of people in my building using wireless connections, and I haven't bothered to secure mine and it's frequently becoming unavailable, although if I just connect my laptop to the ethernet port, the connection's all good. So, unless I'm mistaken, basically someone else is likely using my connection. Right?
Now I'm reading the incredibly limited LinkSys support documentation I have, and it's just confusing the hell out of me as to what I'm supposed to do. Some things seem overly complicated, some seem overly simple. And the Windows XP wizard for setting up a wireless network just makes no sense to me.
So... what do I do? I know the SSID (why can't it just be called the network name and make it easy for people?) although I can't seem to figure out how to change it from the default. I see that LinkSys recommends enabling WAP encryption, MAC address filtering, an administrator password which I'm not sure is really relevant to me, and disabling SSID broadcast. I can't seem to even find controls for half of this.
I see something for changing the Network Authenticator to WAP, which then defaults the encryption to AES. That opens up some EAP options, which I have no idea about.
So, now that I've babbled about a ton of shit I don't really understand... anyone have suggestions or a simple fix?
Edit: Oh, and it might be noteworthy that I never truly set up the router. I just plugged the damn thing in because the setup was solely focused on a network and wanted me to do things that weren't possible or relevant given my intention on just using it to link my laptop and broadband connection.
