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[bardic_lady]

Clearly, my wireless router is being a shit. Or someone is stealing my bandwidth. How do I set up my router to be a secured network, oh tech savvy ones? (You all know who I'm looking at...)

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[sir-gareth.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you have interference. Wireless radio signals are fickle things, and in apartment buildings the frequency can be warped and even made so computer doesn't sense it, by lots of different factors. Some include microwaves, cell phones and cordless phones, but nothing has really been proven as to what actually causes it.

I had a similar problem for a year in this apartment building, and then the people across the hall moved out, and it's been crystal clear and uninterrupted ever since.

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

That wouldn't surprise me, since I didn't start having problems until the new guy showed up.

[metalmensch.livejournal.com]

Locking it down is easy. If you change the settings on the router to only accept certain MAC addresses (it's pretty intuitive generally), and before doing that add your MAC address into the system. It should work fine for locking things down.

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

If I what to the who? I have no idea how to change settings on my router.

[metalmensch.livejournal.com]

Look on your router, find out what the make and model is. I'll look up the docs when I get home.

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

Clearly, you entirely rock. It's a Linksys WAP11, 2.4GHz