Secure Wireless Network?

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I just setup wireless network at home and I want to change SSID and stuff to make it secure. I tried going to http://192.168.2.1/ via firefox and it says it is taking too long to respond.
I am using US Rebotics 5461 wireless router. The Internet works great one all computers. But I want to make it secure. I went to US Rebotics website and it says go to http://192.168.2.1/ but it’s not working. Is there another way?

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Re: Secure Wireless Network?

here you go.. check out the link

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Never mind. I was actually using the wrong IP address. I reset the router and everything is fine now. After resetting the router i was able to access that IP address. But thanks for your help. I appreciate it. :)

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Best way to make wireless network secure is not to advertise the SSID or even better is hide the SSID and do MAC filtering.

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No it's not. SSID is brodcasted in plain with every probe packet. MAC filtering is NOT security.

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ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 hw ether A1: B2: C3: D4: E5: F6
ifconfig eth0 up

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