How to Lock a Wireless Router

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Dave Andrews. Today, I'm going to show you how to lock a wireless router. Let's begin by pulling up our wireless router. In most cases, your wireless router can be accessed by going to the Internet and typing in for the address 192.168.1.1. Just press enter. It's going to come up asking you for an administrator login. By default, many routers are admin and admin. The very first thing we're going to do is change our admin password on the router. Click on Administration, and here is our router password. Let's make it something else. After we've changed the password click down here at the very bottom to save the settings. If any messages pop up about security just say yes. Next, we're going to lock down the wireless to where it requires a password to login. Let's click on wireless, and we'll have to retype our new admin password since we just changed it. Let's go to wireless security, and in security mode let's generate a WEP key. Let's type in some sort of pass phrase; I'll just do my name, and say Generate. What this has done is generate several WEP keys that we can use. You'll need to write these down and keep them, or else you won't be able to access your router wirelessly. It's going to pop up asking for that WEP key when you try to connect. To save your settings, simply click Save Settings down at the bottom. My name is Dave Andrews, and I've just showed you how to lock your wireless router."