How to Secure Your Wireless Home Network

This article describes how users can use to ensure that your technology 802.11b/g/n wireless home network. How to secure your wireless network is very important because if not, neighbors not only provided you are connected to the Internet, but they can also access their files, look at what you're doing. Even worse is that hackers can use your Internet connection to upload illegal material, and the Federal Bureau of investigation will be the Bell.

Connect to your router through your browser, type, is called a gateway IP address.

• To find your gateway IP address and connect to it in a window

• Click Start > Run > type 'cmd'> click Enter
• Once you open a command prompt window, type ipconfig/all ' hit ' enter '
• Find the rows marked with gateway, after you make a note of the number. It will look similar to '192.168.1.1'
• Open an Internet browser (or your favorite browser)
• Enter the gateway IP address in the address bar and click Enter

To find your Gateway IP Address and connect to it on a Mac

Open your Finder and run the Terminal application > utility

Once you open a Terminal window, type ipconfig-a and hit Enter

Find the rows marked with gateway, after you make a note of the number. It will look similar to '192.168.1.1'

Open the Safari (or your favorite browser)

Enter the gateway IP address in the address bar and click Enter

Enable encryption on your access point. Using 128-bit encryption or higher makes your Wireless Network more secure. WEP and WPA are entirely different encryption schemes. WEP has been proven insecure and can be cracked in a few minutes using free utilities that can be downloaded from the Internet. Using at least WPA is recommended, because it is much more secure, but is sometimes a bit harder to set up correctly than WEP is, and isn't completely secure. [1] [2] Some older access points or wireless cards do not support WPA2. If you have one of these, it is recommended that you purchase a newer one that supports WPA2, depending on how important you consider your security.

3Set router access password. Person to gain access to the router's configuration settings, you can disable your security has been set. If you have forgotten your password, most routers have a hardware reset Resets all settings to their factory default values. Best option is to use random sequences of maximum length of characters-you need to type it only once, so it's not a big deal. When you are connected to the router via a LAN cable, it set up at the same time, you can copy and paste the password into the router, onto your local settings, so you never have to type it again.

• Use a secure password. Do not use easily guessed password WPA2 or router access password for you, such as "ABC123", "password" or a string of numbers in order. Use hard to guess and include uppercase and lowercase letters as well as numbers. Special characters such as! Does not support some of the router. Key as long as you can, while WPA2 key for minimum and maximum length. Try to do a little mental effort-good passwords can be difficult to remember, but hard to break down.
• If you use a weak key and WPA and WPA2 can be cracked with ease even using a special calculation table and a combination of dictionary attacks a day. Generate security keys, the best method is to use a random number generator offline 0-9 or the rest of the alphabet uppercase and lowercase and numbers in separate pieces of paper, mix together, and randomly pick and return them, mix them up and then every time; wrote you pull out each character will be one of your key characters. You can also try throwing a pair of dice and use the build number as your password.

Change the Service Set Identifier (the network name or "SSID") from the default to something unique. A default SSID indicates to hackers that the network was set up by a novice and that other options (such as the password) are also left as the default. Use a name you can remember and identify, as the SSID has no influence on the security of your network (not even if you choose not to broadcast it).

Enable MAC address filtering on your access point or router. (Not to confused with Mac computer model) is unique for each wireless network card MAC address exists in the code. MAC address filtering will register the hardware MAC address of the network device, and only allow a known MAC address to connect to your network device. However, the hacker can clone the MAC address, still gets into your network, thus MAC address filtering should be used suitable WPA2 encryption.

Do not disable SSID broadcast. Do not disable your access point or router's SSID broadcast feature. This seems counter-intuitive, but it is actually a bad idea. [3] Although this can your neighbors to make your network invisible, any determined hackers can sniff out your SSID and you implicitly forces your computer to call out your SSID anywhere you are, although it is trying to connect to it. Anyone can be simulated with the SSID for your router, and then let your credentials in this manner.

Disable remote login. Brute force attack forced its way into the worm first router router in this way. Most of the default user name will be set to administrator. It is not difficult to crack passwords, if the user name is a known virus/worm. The good news is that routers will usually have it disabled by default. Be sure to confirm that you have disabled when you set up your router for the first time, and periodically thereafter. If you need to update your router's remote settings, only the access you have to set the connection time.