Common methods for security setting of home wireless routers

With the wide-band speed of the operators, wireless has become the first choice for family networking. People really feel: wireless is really good! and manufacturers in the wireless router settings also try to be human, to help uncle aunt can easily set up a home wireless network, but a mention of how to make the home wireless network more secure? Many aunt again made difficult, think the security protection operation too complex, bad setting. Today, small make up with the mother through five strokes easy to settle home wireless network security. In this, can not say that these five strokes is absolutely safe, but against a neighbour rub net or something is very effective. Are you ready to start?

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First step: Encrypt the wireless network

When we get to any of the home wireless router, the first thing to do is to do without the basic set of lines. The wireless network must be encrypted during the setup process, which is the most basic setting and the most important setting for protecting the wireless network.

The method is as follows: The wireless network encryption option is found in the Wireless Settings menu in the line-free web configuration interface, and the wireless network encryption settings can be completed in the wizard if the user has no line features such as the Quick Setup Wizard.

▲ Wireless network encryption

Generally we have three kinds of wireless encryption methods: WEP encryption, WPA encryption and WPA2 encryption. In particular, the three kinds of wireless encryption have different effects on the transmission rate of wireless networks. Because the IEEE 802.11n standard does not support a high throughput rate for a WEP encryption (or TKIP encryption algorithm) unicast password, the wireless transmission rate will automatically drop to 11g if the user chooses either WEP encryption or WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK encryption TKIP algorithm ( Theoretical value of 54Mbps, the actual test results of about 20Mbps).

Now users are basically using 11n Wireless products (150M or 300M), then the wireless encryption mode can only choose WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK AES algorithm encryption, or wireless transmission rate will be automatically reduced. And if the user is using 11g products, then three encryption methods can be very good compatibility, but we do not recommend the choice of WEP this older and more easily cracked encryption.

Second trick: Modify the default username and password

Some users may not set the wireless encryption, we need to modify the wireless router default login username and password. Why would you do that? The reason is simple, because the same model or even the same manufacturer's wireless router at the factory set the default user name and password is almost the same. As a result, an experienced user can easily access a line-free web configuration interface to control your wireless network with just a few tries. Therefore, modifying the default username and password is also necessary to protect wireless network security.

Set the method as shown below:

▲ Modify default username and password

After the modification, click on the application, and then save, login to the wireless router's web interface when you need to enter a new username and password.

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