The development of wireless routers in China is still very rapid, so I have studied the four security methods for wireless routers. I would like to share with you here, I hope it will be useful to you. Major brand manufacturers have added methods such as keys and forbidden SSID broadcasting in the configuration design of wireless routers. Are these security settings really effective?
As more and more friends enter the "wireless School" family, the security of wireless networks has attracted much attention. Relatively speaking, wireless networks are more difficult to protect than wired networks, because the number of fixed physical access points in a wired network is limited, and any point that can be achieved by the wireless network signal may be used.
Therefore, major brand manufacturers have added methods such as keys and forbidden SSID broadcast in the configuration design of wireless routers. Are these security settings really effective? The following uses wireless devices that support the ieee 802.11g standard as an example to illustrate how to solve the problems one by one.
Set network key
The wireless encryption protocol (WEP) is a standard method for encrypting data transmitted in wireless networks. Currently, most wireless devices only have WEP encryption, and more secure WPA encryption is not widely used.
Currently, there are two key types for a wireless router or AP. For example, the used wireless router has a 64-bit and 128-bit encryption type. Enter 10 or 26 strings as the encryption password respectively. We would like to remind you that the data transmission encryption function is disabled when many wireless routers or APs are leaving the factory. If you use it without further settings, then your wireless network becomes a "undefended" decoration. Therefore, it is extremely important to set encryption for your wireless network.
Test results: the 64-bit encryption method is used. During the test, the existence of the wireless network is found through software such as network stumbler. However, the wireless network cannot be used because the password cannot be obtained.