RT-N66U How do I remove someone from my quest network?

[Cosmic]

Hello all

I have a problem with removing users from my quest network and was hoping someone could help.

I have setup a wireless quest network that is used by the person that rents the house next to ours. My problem is that he keeps giving the password to his friends that visits and when many of them are logged on at the same time it eats up all my bandwidth which was not great to begin with. I tried going into parental control on the router right now and add those client to deny them access. My problem is that the clients still keep showing up as logged on in the network map after this is done.
Does this mean they can connect to the quest account, but without internet access or how does this work? Is there any way to remove his friends from the network completely?

Thank you for your time

 

[huotg01]

Hello all

I have a problem with removing users from my quest network and was hoping someone could help.

I have setup a wireless quest network that is used by the person that rents the house next to ours. My problem is that he keeps giving the password to his friends that visits and when many of them are logged on at the same time it eats up all my bandwidth which was not great to begin with. I tried going into parental control on the router right now and add those client to deny them access. My problem is that the clients still keep showing up as logged on in the network map after this is done.
Does this mean they can connect to the quest account, but without internet access or how does this work? Is there any way to remove his friends from the network completely?

Thank you for your time

Why don't you just change the SSID ?

GH

 

[got_milk]

I wonder if MAC address filtering applies to the guest SSID as well?

Denying them access via parental controls, however, should block their access to the internet - they'll still be able to associate to the access point, but they shouldn't be able to get to any web pages.

 

[RogerSC]

Hello all

I have a problem with removing users from my quest network and was hoping someone could help.

I have setup a wireless quest network that is used by the person that rents the house next to ours. My problem is that he keeps giving the password to his friends that visits and when many of them are logged on at the same time it eats up all my bandwidth which was not great to begin with. I tried going into parental control on the router right now and add those client to deny them access. My problem is that the clients still keep showing up as logged on in the network map after this is done.
Does this mean they can connect to the quest account, but without internet access or how does this work? Is there any way to remove his friends from the network completely?

Thank you for your time

Change your wireless password, and tell your neighbor that you'll only tell him what it is if he doesn't give it to anyone else. If he does, change it again and don't give it to him.

Sounds like it's time for tough love *smile*. I'm not sure why you're being so loose with an individual that is treating you so badly. You can still be friends, but maybe you can't share wireless...

 

[Cosmic]

I wonder if MAC address filtering applies to the guest SSID as well?

Denying them access via parental controls, however, should block their access to the internet - they'll still be able to associate to the access point, but they shouldn't be able to get to any web pages.

Just what I was hoping for . I'll take a look in the traffic monitoring log later just to be sure it's working. If not I quess I will just change the SSID and stop being nice lol. Thanks for the help.

 

[linkmaster]

If you still want only him to have access , you could set up so only your devices and his PC can access by putting those MAC addresses you want to have access to your router in the MAC address 'allow' filtering...

That then only allows him plus your devices on , a bit more work for you though....just a password change and a 'do it again and that's it' might just do it.

 

[RogerSC]

If you still want only him to have access , you could set up so only your devices and his PC can access by putting those MAC addresses you want to have access to your router in the MAC address 'allow' filtering...

That then only allows him plus your devices on , a bit more work for you though....just a password change and a 'do it again and that's it' might just do it.

Just a quick note, changing the SSID has no effect on security unless you also change the password. As soon as the individual finds your new SSID (by signal strength most likely *smile*), they can get back on your wireless unless you've changed your wireless password. You may be thinking of wireless SSID and password as a pair, but there's no need to change your SSID if you change your password.

If you know all this, sorry, never mind.

 

[CaptainSTX]

If you still want only him to have access , you could set up so only your devices and his PC can access by putting those MAC addresses you want to have access to your router in the MAC address 'allow' filtering...

That then only allows him plus your devices on , a bit more work for you though....just a password change and a 'do it again and that's it' might just do it.

MAC filtering has very limited value for keeping people off your network. Changing a device's MAC address using either built in utilities or other software is a trivial task. All someone needs to do is look at your network and connected devices and then select the MAC of a connected device and they are back on.

 

[linkmaster]

MAC filtering has very limited value for keeping people off your network. Changing a device's MAC address using either built in utilities or other software is a trivial task. All someone needs to do is look at your network and connected devices and then select the MAC of a connected device and they are back on.

Perhaps a combination of Guest network only access (access only to internet) and MAC address limits then.