Setting up a password for my wireless network. . .

Hey all
I have a wireless network at my home using a Netgear DG834G v2 router. I need to set up a acess password on the network to stop theiving neighbours - has anyone done this before? If so what procedures did you go through?
I have tried it several times but keep losing the connection to all the computers on the network. . .
Many thanks in advance. . .

I have Dg834v2 as well which is a pain the neck with my macs, passwords and encryption methods are not remembered for more than a day or two by either of my os x laptops. Constantly interfered with by another Netgear router on the same street despite almost daily channel changes. ugh...
The only way I can get any stability at present is to disable all security in the Netgear and only allow the specific mac addresses of each laptop to connect. No idea if this secure and crazy though it is my Powerbook behaves far better as the only mac on the school windows wireless network than at home in a mac only environment !
Good luck with it!
Andy

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long story short i need to set up a password for my linksys wireless router... i tried go to linksys' website link i went ahead and set up a password using instructions from the link above...went to http://192.168.1.1/...clicked on admin tab and set up password... to test out my password i turned on/off my wireless connection on my macbook. when i turned it back on and selected the linksys wireless connection from the dropdown menu on my macbook it did NOT prompt me for a password? what am i doing wrong? why isnt it asking me for a password?
Message Edited by OnnagokorO on 11-27-2007 11:53 PM

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