Secure wirless router without being connected to PC, how?

There is one way, Get a Wireless router with an internal firewall, use WPA for access from the wireless side and use packet filtering for access from the wireless side also.

This ain't great, but it 's a start. You can get wireless routers with decent firewall protection but your going to pay a 'little' more than the normal $50-100 for them. You need a business class router or enterprise router for a real good solution.

hope this helps,

Bob

Robert Smith Consulting Wired & Wireless Networks for Home, Business & Enterprise

If your question is about changing router settings then yes, it is much safer to do it through wired connection.

I guess this is impossible. I suppose I could connect my laptop to it and set it up to be secure.

I got the wep set up and working.

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Duane :)

WEP is better than nothing. If your router supports WPA, go for it as it's much more difficult to crack. A decent hacker could penetrate your WEP network in a few minutes. If you're really concerned about security, use MAC address filtering as well as WPA, turn off DHCP and assign IP addresses manually to each of your computers. Also be sure to change the password on your router and use a SSID other than the default.

Turn on it's encryption.

http://192.168.0.1

MAC filtering just requires a momentary sniff to defeat, turning off DHCP is pointless because if the hacker has cracked WPA (unlikely) then sniffing a packet to pick up the IP address range in use isn't going to present a difficulty. Kismet already does this for you anyway.