Originally Posted by
Fraser
Ahhhh...didn't realise the password would be reset too.
The good news is I've managed, some how, get it working and I'm wirelessly connected as we speak, as is my wife.
Thanks for your help and useful comments, I really appreciate all your input with my rather dumb questions
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Despite Google and the Belkin website we haven't figured out how to secure the wireless network with a password, though I was able to get the MAC numbers for each of our laptops and only allowed those which is just as good by the sounds of things.
MAC Address filtering will stop the casual surfer, and in all honesty there's nothing you can do on a cheap, home-grade 802.11 access point to stop a truly determined expert, so that's probably good enough.
In addition, if you keep your computers turned off when not using them, and/or don't have any shared network services on them, the only thing a casual attacker is likely to do is borrow some of your Internet bandwidth, and you probably don't care about that anyway.
Bob