Linksys BEFW11S4 802.11B WAP
Is this the router you have?

If so, make sure that you enable your wireless security settings. MAC filtering, disable SSID broadcast, configure WEP or WAP.

Just this weekend... I know someone who moved into a new house. Well, its a wide open area with all brand new houses. I fired up netstumbler and was surprised to find that there were 10 access points right in the area. Since most of the houses are not even occupied yet... I found that very strange. Only one of them was secured... This was using an integrated antenna too... not even an external antenna. Quite a few of them even had the default passwords for the admin account and I was able to access the config to the routers.

What surprised me most was that the area doesn't even have cable or dsl... so they must be all using satellite internet. Most of them connected me right away to the internet... which also meant that I was automatically connected to their private lan. Completely bypassing their router "firewall".

I was only scanning from one room too... maybe next weekend I'll have to map out the neighborhood and see how many more are there.

Mabye I'll hang some signs in the beginning of the neighborhood with my name and phone number offering to secure wireless networks in the ares. Quick cash? I'll hang the signs where the strongest signals of unprotected WAPs are... LoL