Just last night I had to resolve a problem with my wireless router, and it turned out that some neighbor's router was stepping on my broadcast frequency. I get a pretty weak signal from my router as it is, but there are 5 other networks in my neighborhood that show up as available, and 3 of them have a pretty strong signal.

I suspect that someone just changed their settings recently and my network suffered for it. After a few hours of troubleshooting, I stumbled on the answer and all appears to be well now.

Another thing that is a good idea is to backup your router configuration. Usually you can save your settings as a file, and then restore them after a hard reset (as I described above). It saves you a little bit of time, but you should only make a backup after you know it's working. In your case, after you confirm that it works in both your OSs.

Anyway, hope that helps.

BigJohn

The "reset" I've been doing is unplugging my modem and router and leaving them unplugged for a while then plugging them back in.
Unfortunately all of the configs are default, so even the real reset wouldn't change anything. I haven't gotten around to doing MAC address filters.

Is there any way you can see all the computers connecting to your router? Like if I wanted to see if my neighbor was mooching off mah internetz?

Absolutely. Usually you go to a Status type of page, and you should be able to get to see a DHCP client list. On Linksys routers, you go to the Status page, then the Local Network Tab, and then there's a button called DHCP Client list (or something like that).

Setting up secure wireless networks is tricky. What kind of router do you have? I can give you a set of directions if I'm familiar enough with it. Of course, you probably should resolve your current problem first. Have you had a chance to upgrade your firmware?

BigJohn

stoopid moochers.

I haven't upgraded the firmware yet, because I fixed my problem! Woo! The other computers on my network were working fine, but mine wasn't because mine had the wrong type of authentication going on! So now I can connect to my network.

I have a linksys wireless-B BEFW11S4. My boyfriend recommended that I get the mac addresses of the computers on my network and block all devices except those.

I was working with the router today because I added a slingbox, and I'm realizing that I don't know how to do anything with it. I tried to forward a port and lost all wireless connection. I also would like to know how to forward a port for bittorrent but couldn't do that either.
I tried congifuring my linksys router by going to Application & Gaming > Port Range Forwarding and putting in the port that I know the app was trying to use, but it still didn't work.

MAC address filtering is a good idea, and it's guaranteed to keep your snooping neighbors out.

Not sure why port forwarding didn't work, but you would only need to do that if you wanted incoming (from outside your house) port traffic to be directed to a specific port on a specific computer. I'm not sure what a slingbox is, but I don't see how port forwarding would apply to something hooked up to your internal network.

For example, if you were running web servers on two computers hooked to your router, and only one of them you wanted people from the outside to get to (like you are hosting a family web page or something, while the other may before some internal web site you have just for yourself), you could forward the incoming port requests to the specific computer that runs your publicly-available web server.

Does that make sense?

BigJohn

Slingbox plugs into my tv coaxial cable and then into my router, so I can watch tv on my computer. The reason I would need port forwarding is so that when my computer is outside of my network, I can connect to it and watch my tv remotely.
I think there is a port forwarding problem with my router, and tomorrow am calling tech support.

Hmm ... unless the slingbox is connected to a computer that is always on your network, I don't see how port forwarding is going to help you. If it is, then you'd have to forward the port traffic to the specific computer and its port, which is pretty much what it sounds like you're trying to do.

I don't think you can just connect directly to the input stream, unless the slingbox itself has an IP address on your network and can handle incoming port requests.

Interesting setup!

BigJohn

There's this page, which I don't know if you've seen already:

Slingmedia Port Forwarding setup

They mention UPnP, which I know is an option I've seen on the linksys routers. Maybe you have to enable that first, then run the Port Forwarding Setup wizard?

BigJohn

I figured it out after some trial and error. I tried the UPnP thing first, then that didn't work. So then I tried the manual port forwarding thing which didn't work either. Tried the UPnP thing again and the other port forwarding. It ended up working when I disabled the UPnP thing. Not sure what happened, but now it works.

lajoyce!

Persistence!

BigJohn