Computer guru needed...HELP

[prk166]

Originally Posted by montgjules

Isn't it usually like 192.168.something to access your local thingee?

Okay, I have no idea. rslfutbolfan, give us the make model and year (jk) of your wireless thingee and we'll try to find you an online manual with instructions. My husband and I have had to look up stuff like that online lots of times...

Yep. That's it. Just find out what IP address to use in your router. Once you do that, just poke around. Post some screen shots for us (if you don't, nab yourself a free account at Flickr.com or one of those). I could stumble through it that way. But you should see something where you can change it to WPA / WEP for security and set a password. I think once you do it you'll see it's pretty easy. The trick is getting the IP which if you don't have already, should be in a FAQ at Dell's site or their tech should be abel to direct you to that.

[beaveman]

My neighbor found out the local highschool had no protection of their wireless network - he could get on anytime he wanted to. Not sure if they've changed that yet.