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How to secure wifi?
How to secure wifi?
Is there a way to secure wifi without being a techie? I need to secure my home network from hackers, spammers, or outsiders, or hacking attempts.
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Re: How to secure wifi?
The easiest way is to set your router to maximum protection if possible. Initial directions should be on the side of your router. You probably accessed admin when you set your router password. On mine I loged in and moved to the Firewall section and chose a setting. I set mine to maximum a few years ago and never had any obvious problems.
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Re: How to secure wifi?
Further to Bulkley's advice, change the default router password. Mine came with username: admin and password: admin, which I believe is quite common.
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Handy and helpful guide. Prompted me to check my recently supplied ISP router and sure enough several settings needed to be secured.arochester wrote:https://www.tomsguide.com/us/home-route ... 19245.html
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Re: How to secure wifi?
ISP-supplied modem and router are usually the first things I replace. I get that's not possible with every ISP but we really have no idea what's getting sent back to our internet provider.sunrat wrote:my recently supplied ISP modem/router...
Another thing I do set my router to rotate WPA keys every 60 minutes. There isn't enough computing power on the planet to brute-force my WPA key before my router generates a new one.
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Re: How to secure wifi?
Actually I just remembered my ISP supplies a separate router and NBN Co supplies the modem which is not able to be changed. Best I can do is secure the router as much as possible. It's a TP-Link Archer with most of the settings configurable so not as bad as some I've seen. I'm satisfied having set all the settings mentioned in the guide linked above.
Plus I'm on a pension and $200+ for a new decent router is money I'd rather use elsewhere.
Plus I'm on a pension and $200+ for a new decent router is money I'd rather use elsewhere.
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Re: How to secure wifi?
arochester, great guide. Thanks.arochester wrote:https://www.tomsguide.com/us/home-route ... 19245.html
Re: How to secure wifi?
if you ask me, best to get rid of Wifi altogether, if you can, and use a wired connection.
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Re: How to secure wifi?
The first step is to choose a router which is supported by Open Source projects and replace the firmware.
All other options/methods of protecting Your network are useless if You use closed source firmware.
Best of the best is OpenWRT, and what is funny, it boots Your router typically 10 times faster than the closed source crap.
All other options/methods of protecting Your network are useless if You use closed source firmware.
Best of the best is OpenWRT, and what is funny, it boots Your router typically 10 times faster than the closed source crap.
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Re: How to secure wifi?
I have one of these also and have been pretty happy with it. Archer A7 v5 and the first time I tried to flash OpenWRT on it it didn't work so have been using stock firmware until I can get my wife off the router long enough to try againsunrat wrote:TP-Link Archer...
My ISP is Spectrum and the cheap Asian generic cable modem they gave me refused to work if laid on its left side. Took me a whole day to figure that out and replaced it with a cheap Asian Motorola cable modem. Worked great ever since
edit: Misspoke above. My router rotates WPA keys every 15 minutes, not 60. This is probably security overkill so I may back it off a little.
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