I would guess a large number of visitors are probably robots/crawlers of some kind.
I tried to access robots.txt - the file that they are supposed to read and obey when they visit a site, but I could not find one here. I tried:
http://lm.basictek.net/robots.txt
robots.txt
http://basictek.net/robots.txt
What you want is to create a robots.txt file and place it in the root of the domain (so probably lm.basictek.net or basictek.net).
Here is any example robots.txt file for a site I ran years ago, we used a phpbb2 forum, so a similar config may work here. You basically define what the robot can crawl (or what it can't crawl).
We had some private forums, so we explicitly denied those, and most importantly we denied access to some of the "database heavy" pages, like member list. The '/' in the list below is relative to the root, so if you place the robots.txt at lm.basictek.net/robots.txt, then you probably don't need to have the "forum" path, because the forum is located at the root of the domain lm.basictek.net
Now whether this will work at lm.basictek.net, or whether it needs to be at basictek.net, I do not know. But I highly recommend you give this a go, and I would also make the other forums visible again - it is annoying to have to login to see things =\, and if the crawlers have cached the link to a specific forum, they will still crawl it because the direct links to the forums still work (even though they are invisible)
here is the 'robots.txt' file
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User-agent: *
Disallow: /forum/admin/
Disallow: /forum/images/
Disallow: /forum/includes/
Disallow: /forum/language/
Disallow: /forum/templates/
Disallow: /forum/common.php
Disallow: /forum/config.php
Disallow: /forum/groupcp.php
Disallow: /forum/memberlist.php
Disallow: /forum/modcp.php
Disallow: /forum/posting.php
Disallow: /forum/profile.php
Disallow: /forum/privmsg.php
Disallow: /forum/viewonline.php
Disallow: /forum/search.php
Disallow: /forum/faq.php
Disallow: /forum/viewforum.php?f=2
Disallow: /forum/viewforum.php?f=5