Since I found the instructions on the WifiRobin website a little lacking, I decided to write my own tutorial on getting the WifiRobin auto-hacking router device to actually hack a network and rebroadcast it for your personal use. Hope it saves you the 4 hours I spent trying to set it up…
1. Plug the USB interface and network cable from the WifiRobin into your computer. Do a factory reset from the device menu to ensure we’re on the same settings.
2. Manually change your network settings to IP address 192.168.4.21, Router/Gateway as 192.168.4.20, and DNS server to 192.168.4.20 also.
If you’re on windows, you can do the same by right clicking on your network connection and selecting properties, or search for “change network adapter settings” in Windows 7. Write in the comments if you’re having trouble and I’ll make a little video for you.
3. Open up your internet browser and navigate to http://192.168.4.20, and login with the username and password admin/admin. You should be presented with a screen similar to this.
4.Go over to the device…Select the menu option Wireless Scan, choose your network, and wait for packets to be collected. This might take up to about 30 minutes.
NOTE: You can only hack WEP networks, and only when there are other clients connected. If no one is currently connected to the network, you will need to select another network or wait until someone is connected.
5. Assuming you’ve managed to connect to a network, go back to the online router interface and click on the LINK tab.
6. Change the Wireless Mode to STATION.
7. Click on SELECT button to open up a pop-up box of the networks in your area. You cannot do this unless the device has finished cracking the network you targeted, so wait if it hasn’t. If you try to click on select before the router has finished collecting packets, no networks will be displayed.
8. Select the network you just hacked. Router should still be displaying the “Success: connected to …” screen. If you happened to unplug the USB power cable for your device, dont worry. Although it wont display “connected to..”, the password will be stored in memory, so go ahead and select it anyway.
9. Scroll down and see if the password has been filled in for you. If it isn’t there, click once back to the main router interface, then click back to LINK tab.
10. In some cases, it might be listed in hex and you may have a problem connecting. To be sure it connects fine, and in order to be able to use the password on other machines, copy the hex code and paste it to this website.
11. Click to convert the Hex to Ascii, and a plain text password should appear. Copy this, or write down, and go back to your wifirobin link page…
12. Change the Key Yype to Ascii, and paste in the plain text password. If the password is just 5 characters long, leave the WEP key length at 64bit, otherwise if the password is longer you’ll need to also change the WEP key length to 128-bit.
13. Scroll up – you’ll notice the ESSID of the wifi network your device will repeat for you to use will be named by default as “WFB-[name of the hacked network]“. This might be a bit blatent to the actual owner of the network, so change that now before we restart the router. If you wish to secure your network with WPA2 , type your password in the “WPA PRESHARED KEY” box.
14. Scroll down, click change, then click apply when the page asks you. The device will start rebooting.
Connect to your new open Wifi network, and enjoy! Remember you can always connect directly to the hacked network now that you have the password, but if you have many devices and you end up changing networks at a later point, it’s easier to just keep the same open network that WifiRobin creates and change the hacked network through just one device.
Please ask in the comments if you have any more questions or can’t get something working.
Hello my friend,
I saw your tutorial regarding the wifirobin, thanks for that. Now on your previously review you said that the wifirobin is similar to the antcor router. Did you have any website that sale the antcor other than those like DHgate? Someone told me that this wifirobin is like an update of the antcor and the antcor are discontinued, did you know anything about this?
Seems to be available only via dropshipping sites such as dhgate or this one:
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/11777/209770541-283486372/ANTCOR-AW54-SC-2-4GHz-802-11b-g-Wireless-Terminal-54M-Wireless-3G-AP-Router-Automatically.html
Looking at the specs, they seem to be the exact same hardware with same embedded linux firmware that has simply been branded.
There is a firmware update for the Antcor available, the latest of which is dated in April this year at 1.22, whereas the WifiRobin site lists latest firmware as 1.25, so it seems that perhaps it was discontinued and rebranded as the WifiRobin?
Since the Antcor model is cheaper, perhaps it would be possible to flash the WifiRobin 1.25 firmware onto it and have an up to date model at a lower price?
I’m afraid I couldnt find much more about the Antcor, as the only company I found branding itself as Antcor didnt list the AW54-SC as one of their products. It could be that they are a Chinese company with no English site website though, as there 1.22 firmware is entirely in Chinese too, unlike WifiRobins 1.25 which is English. Strangely though, the 1.22 Antcor update I could only find on a Japanese site!…. For $70 it might be worth trying to update the Antcor with 1.25 firmware flash, I think.
Download link for firmware update 1.22 for Antcor:
http://www.ac.auone-net.jp/~szparts/arisan_szparts_v1.22.zip
1.25 WifiRobin firmware English:
http://www.wifirobinstore.com/v1.25.zip
Hi!
Thanks for a great tutorial!
Do you know what happend to “http://192.168.4.20″ when I click on it or try to type it in myself nothing happens?! I only get a blank page… Do you know if the address is changed or what do I do wrong?
Thanks for you respons!
Hmm. Here’s a list of things to check first, then get back to me if that doesnt work.
1. Restart the router by unplugging the power and plugging it back in again.
2. Check the network cable is plugged in (straight, not x-over) and the aqctivity/link lights are on.
3. Check your network settings are properly configured. Windows may have reset them to auto or you may have accidentally changed your OSX location if that is how you configured. Should be set as manually configured, router at 192.168.20, your ip as 192.168.4.*
4. Check your browser doesnt have any proxy settings or VPn configured
5. Open up terminal or command prompt and try “ping 192.168.4.20″. if there is no reply, you may need to restart your router to default settings (via the router menu, last option) and try again (but this will mean you need to rehack networks as your passwords will be lost).
Let me know if those help or if you solve it. Probably something very simple that we all overlook sometimes…
Thanks for your answer!
I actuallly solved it…:) A simple misstake. I marked my wifi network connection and tried to configure that which was wrong..
Another question.. If you crack one WEP network, but push the button “factory resetting” do you lose the data? Or does it still save it in the box? Is it possible to recrack it?…
If it takes to long time for the device to crack a network, 1 hour or longer I guess there is no one online?! Is there any time limit when you know for sure, like it should take no more than 30min?
Thanks for your respons!
Good to hear Krille.
Factory reset does indeed delete the stored password, but you can recrack it as normal.
I found it takes about 30m – 1 hour for any network, regardless of users online. There is no time limit.
If you want to be hacking multiple networks fast, try Backtrack 4 bootable ISO. With a decent computer you can get some done in under 5 minutes!
Admin, I am stuck on the last step you mention above (Connect to your new open Wifi network, and enjoy!). I get to this point after having done all your previous instrucions, and turn on the wifi radio in my laptop, but there I cannot find either the re-named ESSID (by default DD-LINK not the WFB-XX mentioned) or even the ESSIS whose access is succeded in the LCD screen of the Robin. This last may be due to the radio of the laptop is not as powerful as the Robin, but what do I do wrongly not to see the DD-Link?
@Henry – sorry it took a while to reply. Are you still having problems? I expect you’Ve solved it somehow by now, but if not….
First, it would be helpful to use another wifi device to see if you can detect the network on that instead, like an iphone or something? If you can see it on another device, it just be that your laptop wifi card is incompatible (perhaps an old chipset that can only use A range?)
If not, then your settings must be wrong on the router page – make sure you have it set up exactly as described in the guide, because thats where i went wrong first off too. I think the router config should be set as REPEATER type, not ROUTER. Check that. If that is all right, then I’m afraid all I can suggest is that you note down the password to the network you hacked, and do hard reset to the default settings via the LCD menu.
Hope that helps.
Hello everyone,
just thought I mention this, the 3g feature was an feature of the ANTCOR AW54-SC where a user would plug a 3g wireless internet card into the usb slot on the device, however since the WifiRobin uses USB power this feature is completely useless
Thank you, thats good to know. I think I’ll order myself an Antcor model too~
Do you know anyting more about the functionality of the 3g part? Like, did it create your own personal 3G network , as in one you might use for a data-only mobile phone? Or can it hack 3G networks? Or just retransmit them as Wifi?
WifiRobin can be power it up using an AC addapter but this doesn’t come with the device. Then you will be able to use the USB port for the 3G card. You have to go to the Network tab and on the Network Mode select Bridge then Enable the 3G feature. You can go to http://www.wifirobinUSA.com and download the Official Wifirobin manual.
I don’t have one I just read the ANTCOR manual, 3g is mobile broadband, it’s not possible to hack via conventional means, I believe its meant for retransmitting as a Wifi or to create a LAN that uses the mobile broadband for the internet connection
Hi, I cannot connect to 192.168.4.20 when I change my windows settings. A video would help greatly. I change my settings under wireless connection and i’ve tried many other ways…nothing is working. thanks
Hi Sam, I think I can help you without a video. You mentioned changing your wireless settings? You cant connect to the Wifirobin initially through the wifi, you need to do it through an ethernet (network cable) connection. Plug directly into the box, and change the settings as described for that wired connection. Make sure your wireless network is DISCONNECTED from all networks, or they will interfere. Hope that helps! Let us know if you have any more issues.
Hi admin, did you know if you can get internet access from a WiFi network that has been configurated with MAC Address filters? Thanks!
In short – no. MAC address filtering is one of the best ways to secure a network as it only allows specific hardware addresses through.
Longer answer: In theory, yes. You would need to be running in BackTrack or Linux using the MAC spoofing utility (it is possible to fake your MAC address), but you would need to know a valid MAC address for an system already on the network, which would be quite difficult to obtain I think. If you could get closer to one the clients than the Wifi Router they are using, you could use BackTrack to spoof yourself as that networks wifi access point and capture information about a client that way. I’m afraid all that is a bit beyond me though.
I’ve got everything working but I don’t want to use WPA security because it doesn’t work with my cell phone. Is there a way we can use WEP protection instead? thanks!