[X4U] Airport password-

[Daly Jessup]

At 12:09 PM -0400 5/5/06, Richard Gilmore wrote:
>I have another friend with an Apple wireless router is there a way to
>password protect it so her neighbours can't access it so easily?

Yes, go to /Applications/Utilities/Airport Admin Utility

Choose her base station from the list, and click the Configure 
button.  In the resulting window, in the Wireless Security area, 
click the "Change Wireless Security" button. In there, you choose a 
type of Wireless Security, and the Encryption type. Whatever, you 
choose, you will need to create a password for the network. Then 
click Okay.

Once it has a password, outsiders will not be able to access the 
network without using the password. A good password, not guessable, 
should do what she wants. Don't forget the password. She will need it 
to get into her own network. The neighbors will still see the network 
but won't get in and use it.

This is pretty rudimentary. Perhaps someone else knows how to make 
the network invisible? Is it by setting up a Closed Network in the 
Airport Admin Utility?

Daly
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