Protect Your Wireless Network - Lock Down Your Wireless Router

Protect Your Wireless Network - Lock Down Your Wireless Router

Use to connect a wireless network at home using the Internet? Do you know if the others to connect to the wireless network without you knowing? You must protect your wireless network from unauthorized users to access the Internet through the wireless router. There are several ways to do it and where, with a few simple rules, it is also possible that your Internet connection easilySure.

Because the wireless router?
One of the main reasons for the wireless router is protected so you know exactly who is able to connect to the Internet and the network. Do you have online banking? If an attacker can get your foot in the door from the Computer wireless router, you can then infect any Computer on your network and steal information such as credit card numbers and online banking User names and passwords.

Let's say you do not bank online and use your Computer for anything other than surfing the internet. If anyone can produce with the wireless router and get internet access, you can Watch and access to almost everything. If this person is doing something illegal, the FBI comes knocking at the door and not them because illegal activities from Your Internet connection specific.

What can you do to make your protection>wireless network?
The very first thing that you should do is to enable the encryption over your wireless connection. Currently there are 2 standards of encryption. These are WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) or WPA (Wifi Protected Access). WEP is a weaker encryption and for the experienced hacker is easily broken. However if your wireless router does not support WPA (common in older wireless routers), WEP will keep you safe from the casual Computer user leeching off of your internet access. You should check the manual for your specific router for instructions on how to do this. They can almost always be found on the manufacturer's website.

Another option that you can use is to enable MAC Filtering. A MAC adDress is like a serial number hard coded into all network devices. When MAC Filtering is enabled it only allows the mac adDresses of specific devices to connect to your router. Short of someone gaining physical access to the router it is highly unlikely that anyone will be able to connect to your wireless router with this option enabled and configured.

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