A little while ago my GF and I got ADSL installed. I was stoked because I could play online for the first time. Trouble was (apparently) I was hogging the computer. So in order to get some quality time alone with BF2 I bought her a laptop which has wireless networking built in. This meant getting a router with wireless, but I know very little about networking and so it was a bit of a mission getting in all working (especially since I was working under duress "How long's it going to take you too get it working?" etc etc).
Finally I got it so we could both use the internet and I just figured "If it ain't broke don't fix it" even though I knew there was something in the instructions about MAC addresses blah, blah, blah..... from the specs I worked out (wrongly) that the only other house within range of the router was the old lady next door who I doubt has a computer at all. So I figured there was no need to worry about filtering MAC addresses. WRONG!
I was having trouble playing BF2, it was like I had major lag, and one game I even got kicked for high average ping on a server I play regularly with no problems. I looked at the router and the wireless light was going ape. My PC is connected via an ethernet cable so I thought my GF was D/Ling a load of crap, but when I checked her laptop it was off. I checked 'my network places' and there was not one, but two computers connected to my wireless network. WTF??? you pricks! I checked my internet usage history and found that for August we'd used over 90% of our download quota (normally luck to use half), and for September we'd used 25% and it was only the 3rd day of the month! Anyway, I kicked them off and set my MAC address filtering to stop them reconnecting.
A lesson learned....
Finally I got it so we could both use the internet and I just figured "If it ain't broke don't fix it" even though I knew there was something in the instructions about MAC addresses blah, blah, blah..... from the specs I worked out (wrongly) that the only other house within range of the router was the old lady next door who I doubt has a computer at all. So I figured there was no need to worry about filtering MAC addresses. WRONG!
I was having trouble playing BF2, it was like I had major lag, and one game I even got kicked for high average ping on a server I play regularly with no problems. I looked at the router and the wireless light was going ape. My PC is connected via an ethernet cable so I thought my GF was D/Ling a load of crap, but when I checked her laptop it was off. I checked 'my network places' and there was not one, but two computers connected to my wireless network. WTF??? you pricks! I checked my internet usage history and found that for August we'd used over 90% of our download quota (normally luck to use half), and for September we'd used 25% and it was only the 3rd day of the month! Anyway, I kicked them off and set my MAC address filtering to stop them reconnecting.
A lesson learned....