My parents are so paranoid about the internet that they have set a timer somewhere to the outlet powering the router making it fully turn off after a certain time. i cannot get to this timer as it appears to be hidden, and they refuse to keep this router on 24/7. the only thing i noticed that they did, was that they set up a hidden router, and a third router with a fake person's name on it. I have tried various programs such as hydra, aircrack, cygwin, wireshark, brutus, slitaz, and routerpassview, on my computer and theirs, none of it has worked, and i know for sure that they have no idea how to secure their router against these programs (they denied the help themselves when flaws were pointed out), so it has to be something i'm doing. i cannot find the physical location of the two "extra" routers so i cannot press any buttons. I need some sort of complete idiot's guide on how to hack either route. i really do not want to have to go to my college campus at 11 at night just to look up homework and do online tests. is there anyone that can possibly walk me through this? contact me if possible.

Buy a mobile 3G modem, problem solved 

Hahaha, this is the most funny post on EH to date !!!!

Seems to be your underestimating your parents buddy !!! Kudos to them for bypassing all your ELEEETSCRIPTINGSKILLZZZ!!!! 

It's not his router and he doesn't have permission, so what he is asking is illegal.

I think they more like blocking your access than worried about some 1337 hacker that gonna try crack your wireless.

If they wre worried about someone trying hack it why not just turn it off when they not using it?

@MaXe lol simple but affective answer

Damn, you guys are ruthless. lol

hahah if my parents would of done this to me I would of figured it out. Like someone said the power is off after a certain time. What you need to do is see if you could ping the router after that time. What they might of done also is just block your mac address from teh machine you are working on.

Are you sure it's just your computer or laptop. If that's the case just chance your mac address...

@longhorn - so you're telling me it's not nice to poke at someone who's very obviously trying to get ethical people to help them with an unethical task?

Seriously?

I have the sneaking suspicion that the parents locked it down for a reason, thus the OP (original poster) trying to circumvent their rules...  Most of us have been on these forums long enough to spot these posts ALMOST before the OP even pressed 'Post'