I have this router setup with wireless and wired, and one port setup as vlan on a separate subnet. I thought everything was fine until I recently brought in a friend's win7 laptop to work on. In checking the wireless connections available, I saw that my wireless network is listed as unsecured. So, I tried connecting to it from this friends laptop and it allowed me to connect without any password.
I believe all settings are correct, and I have very strong password and very strong share key using WPA2 (as per the attached image).
Any ideas as to why the wireless is still unsecured?
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Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 16:27 Post subject:
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Well, I don't know what to think. This router has been running for weeks on these settings. I tried resetting the router today and no changes...wireless still showed unsecured.
On a whim, In Wireless Security, I clicked 'Apply' and then 'Save', and lo and behold, my wireless network is now secured!
I'm as certain as can be that I clicked Apply and Save when I set it all up, but really, the question is:
Why would the setting be present if I hadn't applied them? And if I'm correct in my recollection of applying and saving at setup (weeks ago), why wasn't the network secured in these last weeks??
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Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 17:14 Post subject:
MikolU wrote:
Well, I don't know what to think. This router has been running for weeks on these settings. I tried resetting the router today and no changes...wireless still showed unsecured.
On a whim, In Wireless Security, I clicked 'Apply' and then 'Save', and lo and behold, my wireless network is now secured!
I'm as certain as can be that I clicked Apply and Save when I set it all up, but really, the question is:
Why would the setting be present if I hadn't applied them? And if I'm correct in my recollection of applying and saving at setup (weeks ago), why wasn't the network secured in these last weeks??
Clicking "save" does just that, it saves the parameter to nvram but nothing else.
Clicking "apply" invokes that parameter. Depending on what you change, when you "apply", it may reboot the router. Typically "applying" radio parameters will not reboot the router. If you watch syslog output, it will stop and restart the radio interface.
So.. Save, then apply or you can just make the change and click on apply, it will do both, save the parameter and apply the setting. _________________ [Moderator Deleted]
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