Disabling individual wireless laptop

Help! Urgent! - my teenage daughter is out of control with her wireless laptop, using it excessively. I need to take hers off the nework, but still be able to run mine on wireless. How do I do this? Do I need to get into hers (she's pinned it) or can I sort it using mine?? We've got BT Home Hub 2.0 - any help much appreciated.

Miri wrote:
Help! Urgent! - my teenage daughter is out of control with her wireless laptop, using it excessively. I need to take hers off the nework, but still be able to run mine on wireless. How do I do this? Do I need to get into hers (she's pinned it) or can I sort it using mine?? We've got BT Home Hub 2.0 - any help much appreciated.
Several options - eg you could change the wireless key, and don't tell her what it is. You could enable access control on the Hub, so that unknown devices can't connect, etc
But none of these will work if she has physical access to the router - she'll still be able to connect with an ethernet cable. She'll also be able to undo any configuration changes you've made to the Hub...unless you change the Hub password...but if she has physical access to the router she could reset it to factory defaults, so none of those will really work. Technical solutions to social problems seldom do.
If it were my daughter, I'd confiscate the laptop until she learns to behave responsibly.

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