This is something I have thought about over the years so thought that I would ask.

I have had this wireless connection for years, on several computers, but it is not secured so anyone can connect to my service.

How do I set a password?

What type of wireless modem do you have?

BT Voyager.

You don't need just a password. You need to find the routers 'home page', it'll be an IP address. You can then set the security level, WPSK2 is best I believe (if I've got it wrong someone will tell you). Try looking here: http://www.voyager.bt.com/

I can't get into my control panel, it wants a username and password. Ah well, it will just have to stay open.

Sue, I don't know about the internet in the UK but here in Oz if I couldn't figure out what to do I'd ring the my ISP and get onto the tech help people. I always start by saying something like "I know I should know this but..." or "I need to ask you a really silly question.." and they are always very helpful Best of British!

If you can't get to the control panel, Sue, try putting in the words "admin" and "password" when it asks you for username/password - they're the standard defaults. When you get on to the main screen, you may need to hunt around for the page referring to the password necessary to connect to the Internet - that's the one you need to add.

If that doesn't work, I'd go along with Tizzabelle and ring the BT tech support guys.

I recommend getting a Cisco Valet Wireless router. They're not very expensive and have an incredibly easy to set up security system, which includes a password protected network and an unlocked guest network. I don't know about their availability in the UK though.

Where I live it is unlikely that any of my neighbours would use my connection. I will try to find the box and instructions which came with it.

Sue - if you can't find the manual, it may be on that company's website. I've started to go to the websites and download the manuals so I don't have to worry about keeping all those papers around.

The default password for a BT Voyager modem is:

username: admin
password: admin

If that doesn't work, put admin in the username field and leave the password blank. If that doesn't work, a password was most likely set for it and you'd need to contact the your internet provider's tech support.

If the default username and password given by pyonir don't get you into the router's Control Panel, then you can reset the router to its default username and password by following the procedure described here.

All solved now that I have the new fibre optic, the engineers have secured it for me.