In areas affected by the earthquake, citizens are advised to open their wifi connection so that they can promote communication and allow those who cannot enter the house to connect to the internet to ask for help and to send information on their health and health status. general situation. The idea is good, at least in theory, to allow anyone who owns a cellphone with wifi connection to connect to the internet even if there was no more field and to be able to send messages via applications such as Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp
To remove the password to access your wifi network, there are two alternatives: reset the router or enter the configuration screen and put the empty password in place of the current one.
Opening the wifi network, you also need to think about the security of your computers to avoid that some jackals can take advantage of the situation and spy on the activities on the PC.
To reset the password for accessing the wifi network, access the configuration page of the wireless router which is found by opening the web browser (such as Internet Explorer) and writing in the address bar 192.168.1.1 which, typically, is the address of the router.
This address can also be 192.168.0.1 or, for fastweb connections, 192.168.1.254
If not, you can find the address by opening a command prompt ( Start -> Run -> cmd ) and write the words ipconfig / all on the black screen.
On the line where Default gateway is written there is the address of the router to be written on the address bar of the web browser.
To access the configuration panel, you must now enter your login and password which can be, if they have not been changed, admin admin .
These passwords are written under the router or in the manual.
In another article all the default passwords and logins for all the Routers are written.
In the configuration of the wireless router it is possible to remove the network access password by disabling the protection.
This does not mean putting an empty password but just disabling the authentication protocol of the WPA2 or WEP clients.
If you have difficulty in removing the password of the wireless network, you can instead reset the wireless router which, in most cases, should reset itself by leaving the connection free.
To reset the router you must first unplug the ADSL connection cable, then you must locate, in the back, a small button to be pressed using a pen.
Hold the button for about 30 seconds and then reconnect the network cable.
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With a network without a password, your PC may be vulnerable from the outside.
In another article all the recommendations to be taken when connecting to a public wifi network, including, first of all, is the installation of a firewall on the PC.
Those who have a computer connected by cable and also have a wifi network antenna, without a router, can share their internet connection even if the range will certainly be very limited.
However, there are several methods to increase the wifi signal strength by connecting to the best channel.
Anyone who owns an Android mobile phone or iPhone can activate the hotspot function and share the data connection.
