scoops1980

Yes the router had a password on it before I stopped using it, so will that still be in place if I do what I say in the original question?

I have an old wireless router at home that when connecting through smart phone you had to enter the password! Since that time I've got a new router! The idea is to plug my old one straight in through an Ethernet cable (just using the router to make it wireless) it won't be connected to a computer, so the question is will it still ask me for my password when I try to connect?

Thanks kenB your making sense

Hi this might be a bit strange but I am a beginner, I work on ships, now just recently the company has got broadband, it's as simple as plugging the cable from the LAN into cabin into my computer, no problems connected to the internet and working fine, now I found an old router on the ship no manual or installation cd, so I took it to my cabin, plugged power on put the LAN cable into the router and it started working (this is all for me to connect my iPhone 5) and yes it worked straight away, found the signal in my wifi networks on my phone, pressed connect and working fine! (There was no password requires to join the router) now this Is where I need help, since this a lot of the lads have noticed there's and unsecure wifi signal on the ship, and yes they've done the same as me, connected there smart phones! After the first day I dropped out of signal with my iPhone and when I went to reconnect I couldn't, it would find the router but not connect, after hours of trying it did eventually connect, but when I went to use the internet on my phone nothing would load! My thought is there's too many users on my router? And I can't get back in until they disconnect? So myain question is, can I place a password on the router that only myself can use it? Before you answer I've read some forums and tried plugging the router into my laptop using the LAN/Ethernet cable (whatever it's called) going to am Internet page and typing the IP address in, nothing happens and my thoughts would be well obviously there's no internet connection? Which there isn't as my laptop only has one lan/Ethernet connection port! Also I can't connect my computer to the router through wifi as I haven't that capability on my laptop! Think I've covered everything, one thing to keep on mind am on a ship and no means of just popping to PC world to pick something up! Any help would be appreciated, thank you for reading and hopefully helping me!