Password protecting a network

I just moved into a new house – a six-week sublet – and we’re using one of the apple wireless routers, but it’s painfully slow. It’s not password protected, so I imagine some of our neighbors are picking up on it. I’m sure the girls I moved in with don’t have any of the settings, passwords, etc. Is it still possible for me to figure out how to password protect our network?
Thanks!
Alec

Hi Alec
Yes - you can administer the Airport base station using the Airport Admin Utility in your Utilities folder. Launch it, and it should detect the base station on your network. The base station itself (not the network) may be protected by a password. You can reset the password by soft-resetting the base station:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107451
Once you can access the station through Admin Utility, add protection to the wireless network as described here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Airport/5.0/en/ap2084.html
Matt

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