When I bought the wireless router to set up internet in this house, I just plugged it in and let it do its magic. I never password protected access, changed the admin login/pwd to the router, or set up any filters. This was five years ago.

I had always suspected that people were hopping on to my wireless network, but it never bothered me (the only thing they can steal is bandwidth). This morning, I woke up to find that someone had logged on to my router (the login/password were still the default admin/admin and my network name was still linksys) and changed the name of my network to Broncos. This morning, I have password protected the router admin login and set up a MAC filter so only computers on "the list" are granted access. It's enough to keep the honest and the clueless (99.9% of the population) away from my network. How annoying. Should have done it a long time ago.

Between that and setting up a static IP and port forwarding yesterday, I have learned a lot of router crap in the past 24 hours.