5 tips: setting up the security settings of wireless routers for home use (1)

Wireless networks have become the first choice for home networking as broadband bandwidth increases by carriers. The common people really feel that wireless is really good! In addition, various manufacturers also try their best to make the wireless router settings human, to help Uncle and aunt easily set up the home wireless network, but once mentioned how to make the home wireless network more secure? Many aunts have made another mistake and think that security protection operations are too complicated and difficult to set. Today, the mini-editor will show you how to easily smooth out the wireless network security of your home through six moves. Here, we cannot say that these five moves are absolutely safe, but it is very effective to guard against network attacks by neighbors. Are you ready? Get started!

▲This buddy has wifi

Step 1: encrypt the Wireless Network

When we get any home wireless router, the first thing we need to do is to set the basic wireless route. In the setting process, you must encrypt the wireless network. This is the most basic setting to protect the wireless network and is also the most important setting.

The method is as follows: on the wireless routing Web configuration interface, find the "wireless network encryption" option in the "Wireless Settings" menu; if your wireless route has features such as "Quick Setting wizard", you can complete the setting of wireless network encryption in the "Wizard.

▲Wireless Network Encryption

Generally, there are three common wireless encryption methods: WEP encryption, WPA encryption, and WPA2 encryption. Note that the effects of the three wireless encryption methods on the transmission rate of the wireless network are also different. Because the IEEE802.11n standard does not support the high throughput of unicast passwords with WEP encryption (or TKIP encryption algorithm), if you select the TKIP Algorithm in WEP encryption or WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK encryption mode, the wireless transmission rate will be automatically reduced to 11 GB (the theoretical value is 54 Mbps, and the actual test result is about 20 Mbps ).

Now users are basically using 11n wireless products (300 M or M), then the wireless encryption method can only select WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK AES algorithm encryption, otherwise the wireless transmission rate will automatically decrease. If you are using a 11g product, the three encryption methods are compatible. However, we do not recommend that you choose WEP, an old and easier-to-crack encryption method.

Step 2: Modify the default user name and password

Some users may need to modify the default login user name and password after wireless encryption is disabled. Why? The reason is very simple, because the default user name and password set by the wireless router of the same model or even the same manufacturer are almost the same at the time of factory. Therefore, experienced users can easily access the Web configuration interface of wireless routing several times to control your wireless network. Therefore, modifying the default user name and password is also necessary to protect the security of wireless networks.

The setting method is as follows:

▲Modify the default user name and password

After the modification is complete, click the application and save it. When you log on to the Wireless Router Web interface again, you need to enter a new user name and password.