Can I Remove This...

I installed my Linksys router WRT54GS on my pc..........to be honest it
seemed to install fine, but I had problems trying to set up the security....
So i restarted it all...........I give the network a new name MYPEECEE and
set up the security fine........

Now...everything seems fine on main PC but when the laptops are in use, they
detect both networks ...i.e. the first one called LINKSYS which is marked
Unsecure.........and also the correct one called MYPEECEE and i had to input
the code for them to work.
Can anyone tell me how to remove the first Linksys one, or at least put a
bit of security on it...

Is it doing any damage being there, except at the moment being totally free
and accessible to all around- A bit on the dangerous side.

I tried logging into the Linksys one and it did it fine......then i logged
back to secured one.......im desperate to secure things up properly here.

Thanks
Dave

Are you *sure* that the router that's identifying itself as "linksys" is
yours?

Someone else could have a router in the area that's never been configured
beyond the factory defaults. Now that you've changed your unit's SSID, you
may be able to see the other network.

William

What do you mean "detect both"? You have only one router, no?

Anyways, you said you installed the router on the PC, i assume that
you wired your PC (with the supplied CAT5 cable) to the router's
Ethernet port. Your laptops have wireless cards and connects to the
router on the router's wireless side, is that right?

Note that only the laptops can detect wireless sources, your own and
your neighbours and anyone elses within range. Your PC cannot see
anything wireless.

Now if you're on Windows XP then know that XP's Wireless Zero
Configuration (WZC) identifies wireless sources by Wireless Network
Name (ESSID) only and ignores the devices MAC address (BSSID). Your
laptops can see a hundred linksyses and none of them are identical

Now that you gave your router a unique name, that linksys is NOT
yours. If you can connect to that one, assuming it has default factory
settings, then you can reset it, change its name, set a password, load
a bad firmware to it and turn it to a brick and remove it for good
from your wireless neighbourhood list. But i won't tell you how, or
advise you to do things as such, cause that would be illegal...

To answer your question, in short, NO, you CANNOT remove that... :-)


On Dec 14, 3:46 pm, "DB" <db002a3...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> I installed my Linksys router WRT54GS on my pc..........to be honest it
> seemed to install fine, but I had problems trying to set up the security....
> So i restarted it all...........I give the network a new name MYPEECEE and
> set up the security fine........
>
> Now...everything seems fine on main PC but when the laptops are in use, they
> detect both networks ...i.e. the first one called LINKSYS which is marked
> Unsecure.........and also the correct one called MYPEECEE and i had to input
> the code for them to work.
> Can anyone tell me how to remove the first Linksys one, or at least put a
> bit of security on it...
>
> Is it doing any damage being there, except at the moment being totally free
> and accessible to all around- A bit on the dangerous side.
>
> I tried logging into the Linksys one and it did it fine......then i logged
> back to secured one.......im desperate to secure things up properly here.
>
> Thanks
> Dave

Thanks for the help......just seems odd that the other name available is the
one I had days ago and that no-one else around here has PC....(unless
someone has sneaked one by me)..

I think i'll get laptop on,,,try and set security on other one......

Cheers

Dave :)

Still sort of confused by the whole thing but as mine is secured properly I
dont think i should worry about this "co-incidence"

<bi241@scn.org> wrote in message
news:ba731c5f-8d64-4d1c-b4b7-ca6249fff980@t1g2000pra.googlegroups.com...
> What do you mean "detect both"? You have only one router, no?
>
> Anyways, you said you installed the router on the PC, i assume that
> you wired your PC (with the supplied CAT5 cable) to the router's
> Ethernet port. Your laptops have wireless cards and connects to the
> router on the router's wireless side, is that right?
>
> Note that only the laptops can detect wireless sources, your own and
> your neighbours and anyone elses within range. Your PC cannot see
> anything wireless.
>
> Now if you're on Windows XP then know that XP's Wireless Zero
> Configuration (WZC) identifies wireless sources by Wireless Network
> Name (ESSID) only and ignores the devices MAC address (BSSID). Your
> laptops can see a hundred linksyses and none of them are identical
>
> Now that you gave your router a unique name, that linksys is NOT
> yours. If you can connect to that one, assuming it has default factory
> settings, then you can reset it, change its name, set a password, load
> a bad firmware to it and turn it to a brick and remove it for good
> from your wireless neighbourhood list. But i won't tell you how, or
> advise you to do things as such, cause that would be illegal...
>
> To answer your question, in short, NO, you CANNOT remove that... :-)
>
>
> On Dec 14, 3:46 pm, "DB" <db002a3...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> I installed my Linksys router WRT54GS on my pc..........to be honest it
>> seemed to install fine, but I had problems trying to set up the
>> security....
>> So i restarted it all...........I give the network a new name MYPEECEE
>> and
>> set up the security fine........
>>
>> Now...everything seems fine on main PC but when the laptops are in use,
>> they
>> detect both networks ...i.e. the first one called LINKSYS which is marked
>> Unsecure.........and also the correct one called MYPEECEE and i had to
>> input
>> the code for them to work.
>> Can anyone tell me how to remove the first Linksys one, or at least put a
>> bit of security on it...
>>
>> Is it doing any damage being there, except at the moment being totally
>> free
>> and accessible to all around- A bit on the dangerous side.
>>
>> I tried logging into the Linksys one and it did it fine......then i
>> logged
>> back to secured one.......im desperate to secure things up properly here.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Dave
>