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Broadband - Securing Wi-Fi

Wireless networks are now common place, cheap to the provision of many Internet service providers that have a hub broadband as standard. Surf the wireless broadband users can live in freedom on the Internet from anywhere in their house, from lounging on the couch on top of the "navigation" on the toilet (useful if you can not drag swept into a online poker tournament! )

Wi-Fi can be set in minutes and has established itself as a luxury that many would not have chosenwithout.

Most of the Wi-Fi products are now ready for use immediately out of the box. For the novice computer user, this is of great benefit, is simply the material and you're ready to go. But the ease of setting up broadband, it often means that security issues are taken into account.

An unsecured network means that you are at increased risk of others accessing your network. This could result is closely related to the use of your Internet for free or at worst could GleanTo receive information from Wi-Fi signal, and potentially valuable personal data.

Measures to protect the network

Change your administrator password on your wireless router

Manufacturers ship their wireless broadband router with a default password for initial access. Once you have your Wi-Fi, and have performed the first thing to do to change your password. To do this, you must access the router. Your ISP, you should do the instructions on howthis.

Turn Off SSID Broadcasting

Wireless LAN is continuously broadcast the network name or SSID (Service Set Identifier). This makes sense if you connect to the LAN, why do not you know that you will be the name of the network, but also the network visible to everyone in your network area. When you turn the SSID broadcast this will make you invisible to your neighbors and anyone else who might happen by.

Changing WEPEPA

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) is transmitted for security by encrypting data over the wireless network of computers. The problem with WEP is that there is a weak form of security that the use of a common 60 or 108 bit key, among all devices on a shared network for wireless data encryption. Hackers danced WEP key using the software, which can easily crack available on the Internet.

WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) is an improvement over WEP, sincestrong protection of data using 128-bit keys and dynamic session keys to ensure that interventions to strengthen the protection of privacy and security.

Install a firewall

A firewall acts as a barrier from the outside world that are blocked or allowed to pass through the information on your computer.

It just takes a little 'time and a small amount of knowledge to ensure that your wireless broadband connection is secure.

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