How to block access to your wireless network

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How to block access to your wireless network:

Now a days people a worried about their increasing Internet bill or loss of data in their Internet data plan and know that their wifi is being stolen and now you are searching for its solution. The temporary solution for that is to change your password but it is not most accurate solution and this will not always work, especially if the people involved have easy access to your password. But it is more accurate to restrict access of your wifi network.

How to block access to your wireless network

In this post we will show you How to block access to your wireless network. With this method you can control your wifi network and only those people can access you wifi whom you authenticate. This method is very basic; it will certainly not stop the most determined attacker, but it works when the people you want to block like your friend, neighbor etc.

 

How to block access to wireless network

How to block access to your wireless network

To do this you must know the MAC address of device whom you want to block. You’ll find the MAC Address of a device somewhere in its network settings or you can google “how to find MAC address of a device” for more help.

  1. Open your router configuration page by entering 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1. It will ask fro user name and password if you don’t know user name and password then you can try entering admin  in both user name and password field or you can also try leaving it blank.
  2. Now you are in router configuration page. now go to interface setting or wireless setting and then wireless MAC filtering.Â
  3. In Wireless MAC Filtering you will do the actual blocking. Make sure you have the right MAC Address and put it in one of the text fields.Once you have done this select the required action. In this case select Deny Association. Now click on the “Activate” button and save your preferences.
  4. If you don’t have MAC address of device whom you want to bock. Then you you can make your wifi network accessible to device whom you want. To do this go to Wireless MAC Filtering and enter MAC address you don’t want block and then select Allow Association. Now click on the “Activate” button and save your preferences

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