How to disable access to modem management interface via WiFi?

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Rainy_jour

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Hello

I have modem-router D-Link 2750U and I want to cut off any access to 192.168.1.1 (Modem management page) via WiFi. How can I do that?

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Phillip Corcoran
Change the login password for that modem's setup utility and keep it secret, known only by you.

Also make sure that new password is a strong one - - a mixture of random letters and numbers is always a good choice, something that others would be unlikely to guess right. Birthdays and family names are bad choices as they present a choice of "possibles" to others.
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Phillip Corcoran

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Change the login password for that modem's setup utility and keep it secret, known only by you.

Also make sure that new password is a strong one - - a mixture of random letters and numbers is always a good choice, something that others would be unlikely to guess right. Birthdays and family names are bad choices as they present a choice of "possibles" to others.
 
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Rainy_jour

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Thanks.
But I'm not looking for that. I want to restrict modem interface (aka 192.168.1.1) to LAN connection only.
means no any access from a wireless device to that page is feasible

like this : http://tunecomp.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/05-remote-access-to-router-dlink.png
 
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Ralston18

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Agreeing with Phillip Corcoran.

You may be mis-intrepreting the administrative page in the screen shot. "Enable Remote Management" access as I understand the image does not mean wireless per se. The screen allows you to establish one IP but does not distinguish between wired and wireless.

To access a router's admin pages you only need its IP, login ID, and password.

Router does not care about the physics (wired or wireless) of the network connection being made.

About the only way to keep someone else out would be to assign all of your devices (wired and wireless) a reserved (by MAC) static IP and disallow any DHCP IP assignments. Very cumbersome to establish and manage. Some "whitelist".

However, IPs and MAC's can be spoofed. And if the router is physically reset all your work will be lost.

Use a secure password as suggested.

 
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