Tips for securing your Wireless network

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Tips for securing your Wireless network

• Most of us are familiar about connecting our cell
  phones, laptop or tablets to wireless networks.
  Wireless connections are established by creating
  an internet access point such as modem or router
  which further sends the signal to the Wi-Fi
  enabled devices. If you are not aware about how
  to secure your wireless networks, then you need
  to gear up and protect it since hackers can find
  their way to launch malicious attacks on your
  computer through your wireless network. 
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• Empower your encryption
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• If you are looking for ways to secure your
  wireless network then enable encryption on your
  router. This will be the first step that most
  experts will prefer to do. Information will be
  scrambled while encrypting which is contained in
  the messages between the router and the device.
  Restriction will be imposed on open access from
  the other user. Wired Equivalent Privacy and
  WiFi Protected Access are two types of
  encryption method. It depends upon the user that
  which method they choose to protect their
  wireless network.

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Plenty of flaws have been shown by WEP in the
past few years which was established in late
90s. Since WEP is better than WPA, but most
people would likely choose WPA 2 as it would be a
better choice for the encryption method because
it is more secure then the WEP. Choose the
password after you have enabled your encryption.
Try to keep the password longer as it will be
harder for the hacker to guess.  Keep in mind
that the ways of enabling your encryption on the
router will vary according to the manufacturer
and model so, refer to their website if you face
trouble.  Firewall need to be turned ON   The
best way to stop unwelcome intrusions to your
network is to turn on your routers firewall.
Most of the wireless routers come with the
firewalls built in, but they have to be turned
on. So, it is necessary to check out whether the
firewall is actually on or not.    Access the
channel using MAC Address   MAC addresses have to
do nothing with apple products. In a wireless
networks, MAC stands for Machine access code
which is a unique identification for each device.
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Filter access option will be provided by most of
the routers through which only those device will
be able to access the Wi-Fi who have been
preapproved by you. Though the MAC address of
Windows operating system and MAC OS X varies but
it is not difficult to find either. It might be
possible for the hackers to clone a MAC address
in order to fool router, so filtering the MAC
address should be used in tandem with the
security measures.    Default name of the network
should be changed   Service set Identifier is
known as the networks name. List of the name of
each network will be provided as you connect to
the wireless network. Default name is given to
the routers so it is optional to provide your own
name or not. The network should not be named
after anything personal or a family
member.    Change default address   Wireless
routers come with preset passwords. It will be a
easy job for hackers to guess the password of
your network as most of the routers come up with
the default password from the factory. It will be
harder for people to crack down the password if
your password contains upper and lower case
letters, numbers and symbols.     
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Avoid Remote Administration   Security
modifications will be made through wired
connection as you disallow remote administration.
People will not be able to change the settings of
your Wi-Fi, if they are going to access your
Wi-Fi. This option is located in your routers
administrative settings.  These tips will provide
you better understanding of securing of your
Wi-Fi security in order to avoid the leakage of
your personal information.    Article Resource
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