Changing Password for Eircom router.

Fortune_Cookie

Does anyone here know how to change the password for the eircom router?

My internet has been extremely slow for the pass week. I was on the routers homepage (http://192.168.1.254) and in expert mode and I was browsing through all the options, I looked at the LAN Statistics. Here it lists all the computers connected to the router and there's a computer connected to my router that shouldn't be. I think it must be one of my neighbours. I want to stop this person for accessing my router. I don't even know how they were able to access it in the first place. Will changing my routers password help? How do I do this?

jay93

Go into your wireless settings (not in expert mode) and see what your wireless security is if its WEP change it to WPA ..The old WEP encryption can be cracked very easily by a site online specifically set up to hack into the older security.

Fortune_Cookie

The wireless wireless security is set to WPA - PSK. It always was.

jay93

oh i see .can you not change your password from the wireless setting screen on your modem ?change it to a very random password so the person cannot access your router again it seeems odd that they were able to crack your WPA-PSK password tough its usually WEP that is easier to crack

eircom: Tony

Fortune_Cookie wrote: »

Does anyone here know how to change the password for the eircom router?

My internet has been extremely slow for the pass week. I was on the routers homepage (http://192.168.1.254) and in expert mode and I was browsing through all the options, I looked at the LAN Statistics. Here it lists all the computers connected to the router and there's a computer connected to my router that shouldn't be. I think it must be one of my neighbours. I want to stop this person for accessing my router. I don't even know how they were able to access it in the first place. Will changing my routers password help? How do I do this?

Hi Fortune_Cookie

if you have a look at this link it will show how to improve your wireless security. This tutorial may aslo help.
Let me know if this does not help.
Tony

Squeeonline

The default Eircom router name "eircomXXXX xxxx" give away the password. There's an android app (and probably other ways) that tell you the password from that code if it is left at the default.

You'd be surprised how many people leave it as the default :-D

jay93

Squeeonline wrote: »

The default Eircom router name "eircomXXXX xxxx" give away the password. There's an android app (and probably other ways) that tell you the password from that code if it is left at the default.

You'd be surprised how many people leave it as the default :-D

Is the Android app able to crack the WPA-PSK passwords or is it only WEP the OP had their password set to WPA which i tought could not be cracked like the older WEP encryption ?

Squeeonline

jay93 wrote: »

Is the Android app able to crack the WPA-PSK passwords or is it only WEP the OP had their password set to WPA which i tought could not be cracked like the older WEP encryption ?

AFAIK just WEP. It uses the numbers on the SSID to generate the code.

jay93

Ah right it would be like that website that also has a generator by entering in the eircom SSID major security flaw for security TBH!