You can log on to your router's configuration page to see who is connecting throught the router. To do this on a Linksys router, open a web browser and type http://192.168.1.1 into the address bar. Enter the username and password you assigned to the router, then explore. I don't have a Linksys router right now to check so that I tell you exactly where to go, but it should be easy to find, especially if you consult the user's manual that came with your router.
To add to these instructions, I also limit the scope (the number of addresses) in DHCP to match the number of machine I have runningm thereby no unwelcome guests can hop on. By default the scope is available to 255 clients.
For example with a Linksys box, my scope would be from 192.168.1.100-104 to give me the five addresses I need for my own LAN. Since two machine can not occupy the same address, access from the outside would be denied.
When I update the DHCP count, do I count all the devices on the router, wired & wireless? I have 2 desktops (wired), printer (wired), and 1 laptop (wireless).
Yes, the DHCP lists all IP assigned to devices connected to the router. If your printer has its own IP Address from the router, it will be listed as well.
If you want to use just the wireless device, Linksys doesn't make it easy - at one stage, some versions of (very) old WRT54G firmware sported a button under Status > Wireless, but it has been moved back to be a part of the MAC Address Filtering, which can be accessed once you have enabled the feature.
While it is possible for the router to assign an IP to 254 clients (255 including the router), Linksys appears to have limited the number of wireless clients to 30-32, 60 on dual a/b/g routers. Nonetheless, as jmwills has suggested, limiting the number of IP Address DHCP dishes out to only what you need makes good practice. (e.g., I set the limit to 6 + 2 free IP for my visitors)
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You can log on to your router's configuration page to see who is connecting throught the router. To do this on a Linksys router, open a web browser and type http://192.168.1.1 into the address bar. Enter the username and password you assigned to the router, then explore. I don't have a Linksys router right now to check so that I tell you exactly where to go, but it should be easy to find, especially if you consult the user's manual that came with your router.
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Nice!
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Thank you all so much for the information!
When I update the DHCP count, do I count all the devices on the router, wired & wireless? I have 2 desktops (wired), printer (wired), and 1 laptop (wireless).
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