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How to find out if wireless router is being used?
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>>>>>no username
>>>>>password is Admin
>>>>
>>>>Darn. I did use something other than Admin. At least I should learn to write those things down somewhere within my reach <g>.
>>>>
>>>>Thank you for your help.
>>>
>>>try
>>>admin
>>>...all lower case
>>
>>I did, no luck. I seem to remember creating a user name and password, but don't remember writing it down. It always seems to easy to remember when you create them <g>. I think there is a reset button on these routers so I will have to reset it. I will probably lose my DSL modem information, right?
>
>Yeah there is a reset button. You have to hold it in for a few seconds until you see the lights on the front flash a few times.
>As for the DSL modem info, yes you're going to loose that and any ports that you have forwarded will be lost too.
>
>Now, to prevent the problem you were having to begin with.....
>If someone has logged into your router and is using your connection - if they used DHCP to do it, then yes, you can look at the DHCP table in the router and see the extra machine. If they gave themselves a staic IP address, then you won't be able to see them this way.
>
>Best things you can do:
>Setup encription (don't use the WEP one, use the other one (I think its wpk))...
>Turn off DHCP, assign all your computers static IP addresses. This also helps when you start forwarding ports.
>Limit the number of computers that can connect to your router to the number of machines you have.
>
>...Really just setting up the encryption will probably keep the others off it, and it won't slow you down enough to really notice.

Thank you for your helpful suggestions. A question, what is "forwarding ports"?
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