What have I done wrong?

[Becker]

I was reading this article on ways to protect and possibly speed up one's wireless connection. It said I should change the password on the router and give the SSID a different name and password.

I have done this in the advanced settings and now every time I try to connect to the internet it won't, I have to go through diagnosis and it says turn router off for three minutes and try again. This actually works but is a pain as you can imagine.

Is there another step I should have done or should I just change all the settings back to factory and hope no-one invades my wireless?

Any basic language help would be appreciated.

Thinking on the first password I have changed is the password to get into setting, is that not the router password and if not how do you cahnge that?

 

[Troncoso]

when you go into the router settings (should be via a web browser where you enter the router's ip address) you should be prompted to enter a user name and password. That isn't the password you change to connect to the ssid.

Once you are in the settings you go to security and choose which type you want (wep, wpa, etc.) and choose a pass phrase which should generate a password that you use to connect to the router.

to be safe you should either

A) choose not to broadcast your ssid. this way no one sees it, but you have to know the name of it to connect.

B) change the password to get into the router settings so no one can change those settings.

if we knew what kind of router you had we could help more.