Wireless Router/War-driving

[jjbtcp]

How can i protect my wireless network from war driver's?

I have changed the default SSID and use Encryption. Is there any more things i should do?

[2k_dummy]

1. Make sure remote admin is turned off.
2. Make sure default username and password have been changed
    Use a strong password
3. Limit the number of IP address it allows to the minumum needed.
4. Turn off SSID broadcast.
5. Check the active DHCP table. If you see anything there that shouldn't be, Write down the MAC address, delete it, then use MAC address filtering to block it.

[jjbtcp]

also, I dont want to know people's views all i want to know; is war-driving illegal?

[2k_dummy]

War driving is not illegal unless someone tries to defeat your security (easily done) or breaks into your computer. There is a gotcha. If someone who is war driving uses your connection to download inapropriate material (child porn), you can be held responsible unless you can prove that you were not the one who did it. See item 4 above. This prevents advertising your presence. If they don't your there they won't use your connection.

[Calum]

One thing I want to add - there is no way to make your wireless network invulnerable.
The best you can do is make it a harder target than the next nearest one, so that anyone wanting to break into it will give up and look for an easier target.
The security measures suggested above are good ways to help secure it, but just remember that it is not invulnerable.
One last thing - check what encryption you are using, if you're using WEP switch to WPA or WPA2, if you're on WPA see if you can get WPA2 instead.
WEP is easily broken, WPA less so and WPA2 is very hard to break.
If you are on WEP and there is no way to switch, I recommend upgrading to hardware that supports at least WPA encryption.

[soybean]

also, I dont want to know people's views all i want to know; is war-driving illegal?

Some interesting reading here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving

[jjbtcp]

thanks soybean but i've already seen that Wiki article. in my router settings you can select WEP or WPA-PAK. i selected WPA-PSK and saved the settings, but when i use netstumbler it detects my network as WEP??

Also i turned of SSID Broadcast. when using netstumbler it still showed up. so i left the SSID name field blank. My connection then stopped working. also i can only change the password of my router, on mine you cant change the username. my router it a "Netgear WGR614".