Wireless Networks Abound!

[David M. Carney]

I have a friend who is staying with me temporarily. He's living in my 
basement. 

He's running a WinXP box and he's trying to connect to my LinkSys wireless 
router using a LinkSys USB network device attached to his WinXP box.

The router is on the second floor of the house.

My problem is I don't believe he's connecting to MY network. When I connect to 
the router (my computer is connected by hardline, not wireless) and check the 
active IP address table, the only one I see is mine. But he is currently 
connected to a network.

I'm using MAC address filtering to control access to the wireless network. My 
friend did have an internal PCI wireless card and I had it's MAC address 
listed in the router so only it could connect wirelessly. He changed it to a 
USB wireless device, yet he was still able to connect to a network. I don't 
think it is my network he's connecting to because we didn't update the router 
with the new MAC address for the USB device.

Is there any way I can get his computer to connect to MY network?

David

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