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by ryder007 Sep 9, 2003 last reply Sep 18, 2003

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Hi I live with two roomates and I have set up a wireless network. Everything was working fine until a person in the nextdoor apt. set one up too. Now we occasionally lose our broadband service and sometimes end up grabbing ip's from their router. I tried setting static ip's for us but we still lose our connetion occasionally. Like I said everyting was fine until the other wireless was set up. Any ideas on how I can isolate this? Thanks.

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by curacao_dejavu Sep 9, 2003

yes,
he , (and you) have to secure his (your) network(s).
he has to restrict the mac adresses that can access his router (and btw use the encryption too to further secure else you can start snooping on his network and maybe vice versa too)
Start reading the documentation about how to secure your wireless network.

you can do a search on techrepublic to find artickle and google.

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5048-22-0.html?SearchThis=secure+wireless&nodeIds=all&queryType=2&tag=search

Leopold

by ryder007 Sep 18, 2003

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by choppit Sep 9, 2003

Some things you and your neighbour should do;

1)Turn off DHCP on your routers and use static IPs.
2)Implement the highest supported level of encryption you can.
3) Specify different channels.
4)Specify your SSID and disable SSID broadcasts on the routers.
5) Use MAC filtering if your router supports it.

by ryder007 Sep 18, 2003

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by sgt_shultz Sep 10, 2003

tell the wireless router to quit broadcasting it's network name and change the network name to something other than the default...

by ryder007 Sep 18, 2003

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by carvercomputers_1 Sep 10, 2003

Indoor Splitter allowing connection of ADSL Modem & Telephone form a single line
- Combines a Low Pass Filter for Telephone / Faxes with a Bypass Filter for ADSL Modems
- Blocks High Frequency Energy on an ADSL service
- RJ11 Socket for Incoming Telephone Line
- RJ11 Socket for Telephone Handset
- RJ11 Socket for ADSL Modem / Route