Wireless Self-reconfiguring?

Feb 10, 2008 2 Replies

The modem icon on my Belkin transmitter started to flash. I unplugged the modem, and plugged it back in, but the icon still flashed. I unplugged the Belkin itself, plugged it back in, and all 6 icons came up blue.



The problem seemed to be solved.



But my laptop couldn't connect to the Belkin. However, a third computer was still connected. I checked the configuration, and saw that what used to be a



10-symbol password had become a 26-symbol one. I typed this into my laptop and the connection worked.

The system had reconfigured itself.



How could this have happened? Is it normal?



Thanks.


On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:25:37 -0000, "Mike Parker" wrote in :

No. You may well have been hacked. Switch to WPA with a strong passphrase. Now.

That sounds like the Hex version of the ASCII key.

Perhaps overdramatic. Your router could also have suffered a power-spike related crash, or otherwise corrupted its firmware.

John's advice about switching to WPA is valid however. Don't use WEP.

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