Thanks for the suggestions so far. We do not have VOIP, this router (although marketed for Vonage) was a close-out and thus, cheap. We only use the internet connectivity part of the router. We have no telephones at all. There is no possibility that anyone else is using our bandwidth. For one, we are subject to FAP and believe me we would know (our allowance is 185 MB a day in downloads). Also, even though it is a wireless signal, it isn't that strong and someone would have to be on our road, on our property, pretty much right in front of the house to use our signal. So, no, there is no misuse of our bandwidth. We do not use a firewall. We have tried them, and simply did not like how much they slowed down our computers. The router nor the Hughes Net modem does not have a firewall. We don't want a firewall on our systems. I also feel that our antivirus and spyware programs are suitable for our needs- I don't want to add any more programs- our machines are not "souped up" modern machines but they serve our needs well. In other words, small hard drives and enough memory to do what we need to do. We use the Tea Timer in Spybot, along with the browser protection. At one time we had Spyware Blaster, but in recent months we just rely on SpyBot. We have well-maintained systems and adding any more protection programs would be overkill, in my opinion. We have used the internet for several years and have never had a virus or spyware. Our computers are used mostly for schoolwork, although we use do use webmail. We do very little pleasure surfing. The router did not come with any software at all. Only the user guide on CD.

well, you need to access the linksys router and look in its wifi pages might try ; http://192.168.1.1 or http://192.168.1.254 or maybe change the .1. to .0.

for routers I stick with liksys the only other one I used was a dlink and it was the one that was provided when I had verizon fios, all that I buy are linksys/cisco. If you already have an N router what are you wanting to upgrade? I found this to be a really good article on routers How to Buy a Wireless Router

that is mac address filtering, if you have set up WPA2 on your security you should not have to worry about it. What mac filtering does is you get the mac address off of each pc that will be accessing the router and in the router settings you enter the specific mac address into the area for mac addresses. When you do that the absolute only thing that can gain access is what ever pc has a mac address that matches the one in the router. But if you have someone come over and visit and they want to use your wireless while they are there instead of just giving them your access password you have to get their mac address go into your router and put it in there. I have done both ways but my new one is on WPA2. As you saw once you put the password in once it will then recognize that pc and not ask it for the password again but each new pc or laptop that accesses it for the first time will have to enter the password which is why I always suggest taping it to the bottom of the router. Mac address filtering used to be used as an added layer of protection however it has gotten much easier for the bad guys to hack mac addresses unfortunately. to find out more just go to google and look up Mac address filtering.