Six Easy Steps to Protect your Wireless Networks
February 10, 2010 by Erick
Filed under Wireless Networking
It can cause not only his attacking problems. If you do not change the default settings of your wireless network, a neighbor with the same router make and model may be accidentally connected to a network, stealing your bandwidth or reconfiguring your router and network without your knowledge. Do not worry, though. There is much to do to protect themselves. 1) Changing your administrator password before anything else, change the password on your router administrator. Each model of router is preconfigured to know with a password by default, and hackers. It is very easy for someone to jump on your network to get full control over its administrative rights and cause great damage. 2) Stop the SSID broadcast of your network and change the name of your Service Set Identifier (SSID) is to know the name of your network, and if the people of your SSID, it is easier for them to find your network and connect. Your router broadcasts its SSID broadcast and bystanders said there is a net. It is also the name. So, if you disable SSID Broadcast, you go halfway, to infrequent users of your network, you see. But to resolve it themselves, and not necessarily the problem. Even if you stop the transfer of the name of your network, you may still be able to connect to your network. This is because manufacturers will generally meet their wireless routers with the same generic SSID’s. So even if you stop the transfer SSID, intruders can easily guess the name of the router and connect. To solve the problem, first change your name or SSID, then hiding 3) Turn on encryption of Wi-Fi networks are incredibly comfortable and incredibly easy to spy. All data on the air between your PC and between your PC and the Internet, you can be comfortable, close to everyone with simple nose software standards like “packet sniffers. Because encryption is the most important step to protect the home network or small office. 4) protect itself is protected with MAC address Another way to your wireless network to connect some computers only, and banning all others. To do this, you will control the filter media access (MAC) addresses, so there able to tell the router to only allow certain MAC addresses on the network and keep all the others. 5) Turn off your network if you do not use this simple precaution can be a very long way to stay safe: simply turn off your router, unless you go through your network. The less time your wireless network is available, the less likely it is pirated. 6) You can check the wireless intruders never be too sure, so even if you take all these tips, it’s a good idea to review your network to see if intruders have made along the way and if you don ‘like it took all this advice, which is one more reason to check.