Wi Fi Connection Problem

What about some more info

what kind of laptop & which operating system?

Here's the Manual

Effectively the wireless connections are just a series of virtual ports to the router section of your unit. So that is where the connection will show up. Wifi is just an invisible wire.

The unit provides WPA-PSK encryption. Far more secure than MAC filtering.

AFAIK Mac filtering is not an option.

just need to clarify a few more things,

the connection is a free one, unsecured. anybody can access it.

i tried to open the default webpage of the router and found that i am connected to one of the ethernet ports and not to the wifi. so surely there is an access point attached to that port. all the other freee users are connected to this port only. other two ports are unused and so is the wifi signal.

i want to filter out some of these users, and yet want to keep it unsecured. i tried to filter using telnet command but it did not work .

i used the following commands

netsh wlan show interfaces

and in the telnet client went to router ip and typed

wireless macacl modify ssid_id=0 radio_id=0 hwaddr=00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx permission=deny

i guess there is an other access point attached to the ethernet port and i want to findout how to filter out the users on that port.

by the way, i am using hp laptop but i dont thinks its laptop specific. its all about detecting that access point and if possible to filter the users,

is there a way out for this??

thanks in advance

Hi

Most decent routers/access points/switches will not allow their configurations to be changed via a wireless connection, but I don't know anything about Thomson's so who knows. You probably need a wired connection and will only be able to work directly in the router's interface. Telnet is a no-no for config changes.

Regarding the ip address, what is upstream of this router/access point? A modem? Then likely the access point's address is dynamically set by the DHCP system of the modem. You don't give enough info to really know. Usually the "default home page" you speak of is it's IP address.

Lastly, after a quick glance at that router's spec sheet, it doesn't appear that it has the ability to do Mac address filtering. That's usually the function of a switch, not a router.

But, then again, with only a spec sheet knowledge of that router, I could be full of it.

Hooker

hi

thanks for your interest. i regret for not being able to clarify myself properly. i will try it once again with the aid of a pic and i will send you a snapshot of my router homepage. may be that will clarify in a better way.

hope you wont mind sharing your mail with me.

thanks