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  • 04-10-2011 5:33pm
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    EastTyrone
    Registered Users Posts: 362 ✭✭


    ok I am not the most IT literate so please bear with me,
    i recently bought virgin broadband with a wireless hub, a visitor to my house brought his laptop and he accidently set up a password on the modem and now noone else can connect to my broadband, how can i reset the modem to allow an open network again? thanks in advance


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    FSL
    Registered Users Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭FSL


    Connect one of your computers to the modem using a cable.

    From a command prompt window type ipconfig

    You will then see a list of all the network connections on your machine most will have no media connected. The one that is connected will have an address against the default gateway.

    This is the address of the modem type it into the address bar (not the search bar) of a browser. That will enable you to access the set up page and you can then set up the wireless connection.

    Note unless you live in the middle of nowhere with no other dwellings or public roads within 100 metres to have an open wireless network is plain stupid. Anyone could connect and use it to download all sorts of illegal material and you would be held liable.

    If some paedophile used it to down load child pornography you could find yourself having to answer a lot of awkward questions from fairly hostile law enforcement officers.

    Check on the wireless forum under Net and Comms for the sticky on how to secure your wireless network.


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    Dermot Illogical
    Registered Users Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Dermot Illogical


    An open network is not very clever at all. As FSL says, any paedo accessing it will leave you with questions to answer. But it goes further than that. If download of child abuse material is traced back to your IP address, you'll have a search warrant executed and all your laptops/smartphones/games consoles & external media will be taken to be examined. This examination can take quite some time, during which a cloud of suspicion will hang over you. It's the kind of mud that sticks too.
    If you have access to children, then social services will get involved.
    The lazy option can have very serious consequences.


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