To what end? How then will you help your dad with his Microsoft Word formatting question? Or, are you talking about opening a port to use with VNC or something along those lines? I'm not understanding your needs. How do you plan on helping your dad if you 'have access to your router.'? It sounds like you want to open the management interface for your router to the outside world. Is there any way I can go into router settings and put something like 'Only this MAC address can access the router' or something along those lines? I only want one or two computers to access my router remotely and one being my phone.Īlso, if someone has the knowledge, can they explain to me how people can hack into someones router settings? I know they can easily get my internet IP address from visiting a website or something like that, but is there software (whether commercial or private) that actually allows the bypass of my username and passwords settings to get into my router, or do they have to get it by social engineering or an actual physical intrusion of the network? What would be the best way (other than disabling remote access completely) to keep unwanted people off the network? I was wondering what exactly I can do to make sure nobody but the connections I want to access the router remotely. The situation I'm in causes me to need access to my router at anytime, even if I'm in another state (Basically, my dad knows nothing about computers so I find myself away from home at times where he needs something configured).

Alright, so I need to use remote access for my router, whether I like it or not.

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