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by hal 9000
Don't have a Internet connection and you'll remain relatively safe. ;)
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by maxistress
by mjd420nova
by monika399
Wireless Network provides you to use internet on computer, mobile phones and other wireless devices anywhere without use of wire but within the range. There is big problem when someone steals your connection to use internet. Therefore, you want to secure your connection to overcome this issue. Here, we discuss some steps that help you to secure you connection
1. Open you router setting page: First you know how to access wireless router settings. To do this type “192.168.1.1” in web browser, then enter Username and password for the router. As username/ password is different for each router, so check it in router’s user manual. In case you lost your manual, use Google to find the manual online for router.
2. Make a Unique Password: To secure your connection, the first thing you should do is to change the default password.
3. Change Network SSID : By default wireless network name is set to the brand name of router, to change it is the good idea to secure your connection.
4. Enable encryption in network: Several methods are used for encryption in wireless setting like WEP, WPA and WPA2. Choose WEP, if you have older devices otherwise choose WPA2. Set a passphrase to access network which is difficult to guess by others.
5. Reduce the range of wireless: Decrease the range of your router by change it to 802.11g or use different wireless channel.
6. Filter MAC address: Find the MAC address for your computers by opening Command Prompt and typing in “ipconfig /all”, which will show your MAC address beside the name “Physical Address”. Find the MAC addresses of Wireless mobile phones and other portable devices under their network settings.
To enable MAC address filtering, first make a list of all your hardware devices that you want to connect to your wireless network. Find their MAC addresses, and then add them to the MAC address filtering in your router’s administrative settings.
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