Home Wireless router security settings must be read

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, the small make up with the ladies through six strokes easy to settle the 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 ieee802.11n 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 the TKIP algorithm for WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK encryption ( 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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The third trick: Turn off or modify the SSID name

The SSID is the name of the wireless network that appears when you search for a wireless network. For enterprise users, the name is designed to make it easier for employees to find and connect to their own enterprise's wireless network, but for individual home users, exposing the SSID only attracts illegal intruders. Therefore, turning off SSID broadcasts is also a good way to improve the security of your wireless network.

Of course, you can also modify the SSID name, such as continue to use the default "D-link", "Tp-link", "Totolink" and other SSID names can easily be guessed by others.

▲ Modify SSID name or turn off SSID broadcast

After you turn off the SSID broadcast, how do users know which wireless network to connect to? The method is simple, the user simply refreshes the wireless network list, then sees a wireless connection without a name (blank), double-clicks it, and enters the pop-up window with the name of the personalized SSID and the wireless key that you know to connect.

Part Four: Turn off the DHCP server

DHCP is a feature that automatically assigns IP addresses to users who connect to a wireless network, eliminating the hassle of manually setting IP addresses for users.

Once the DHCP feature is turned off, the illegal user who wants to connect to your wireless network cannot automatically assign to the IP address, then he has to manually enter the IP address, and in order not to allow illegal users to easily guess without the line by the IP address segment, we must also modify the default IP address without lines. At this point, illegal users want to connect to the network must try each IP address segment, very troublesome. So we recommend that you turn off the DHCP feature and modify the default IP address.

▲ Disable DHCP and modify the default address

So how can you connect to a wireless network after you turn off the DHCP feature without lines? It's simple, just manually set the IP address of the wireless card.

▲ Manual Setting

Manually entered IP address as long as the IP address of the wireless router and the same IP address, such as the wireless router after the modified IP address: 192.168.23.1, then the wireless network card IP address can be set to: 192.168.23.X (X for 2-254 arbitrary number); The default gateway is the same as the IP address of the wireless route.

With the four-step basic setup, your wireless network has become more secure, but if you want to have a quality upgrade to your wireless network in your home, we can also make the following settings:

The five strokes: turn on MAC address filtering

The MAC is the abbreviation for the Mediaaccesscontrol media access control address. The MAC address is the only address that a manufacturer assigns to each device when producing a network device. The top 24 identifies the network card manufacturer, different manufacturer's identification is different, the latter 24 bits is the serial number of the network device specified by the manufacturer.

Turn on the wireless router "MAC address filtering" function, in the MAC address list to enter the network to allow the MAC address, so that the use of the uniqueness of the MAC address, can be very effective to prevent illegal users.

▲ turn on the MAC address filtering function

So how do you view the MAC address of the wireless card? The following method, in the "network connection" to find the "Wireless network Connection" icon, right button-> "status", select "Support"-> "Details", where the "real address" is your wireless network card MAC address.

▲ View MAC Address

In addition, users can also click on the taskbar "start"-> run-> in the pop-up "Run" Window text box to enter "CMD", and then click the "OK" button, enter "Ipconfig/all" in the command window after the return, the same time in the display results can also find the MAC address.

▲ View MAC Address

When you enable MAC address filtering, be sure to see if the filter mode is "Allow" or "prohibit". Different vendors, the filter mode will be different.

How about, the security protection of the home wireless network is actually very simple? Just five strokes, the wireless network security protection standards have been improved. But for the general "rub net" user, these settings of the protection effect is very good. Moreover, hackers will not patronize the general home network Bar. All right, try it.