The Wireless Broadband Router setting technique completely solves the problem of Home Network Security

How can we make the home network more secure? In particular, users who use wireless broadband routers often experience virus attacks, network users, and account theft. In principle, we introduced the security threats faced by wireless home networks and how to reinforce the security of wireless home networks, in the next article, we will introduce the specific setup process through the actual setup instance. This article describes how to modify a default Wireless Router password until you enable wireless encryption.

1. Modify the default password of a Wireless Broadband Router

As mentioned above, wireless broadband routers or wireless devices produced by the same manufacturer usually have the same password. If you do not modify it, the security threats are enormous. Therefore, it may take you 30 seconds to protect your wireless home network from attacks. Why not? Access the management interface of the Wireless Broadband Router through a browser or manufacturer tool. Go to the settings page, find the place to change the password, and click the change password option.

2. Stop broadcasting your wireless network

By default, a wireless router is set to broadcast its Service Set Identifier SSID, so that the wireless network adapter can discover the wireless network without having to know any information in advance. This is a good function, but it brings poor security. In fact, it is completely unnecessary to broadcast our wireless network service set identifier in the home network. Therefore, the first step to enhance the wireless network is to disable this function.

Use a web browser to access the address of the Wireless Broadband Router. You should connect to a Wireless Broadband Router through a wired connection, because if you only use a wireless connection, any modifications you make may disconnect the connection between your router and your computer. Click the wireless parameter and mark "allow wireless SSID broadcast". Remove the check box above, as shown in.

3. enable wireless encryption

Even if you wear an invisible clothing for your wireless network, a more experienced attacker can trace your SSID through various means and find a way to access it, therefore, you need more security settings. The next step to reinforce the Wireless Home Network is to enable encryption. By default, the encryption function is disabled on the wireless devices that leave the factory. To enable the encryption function, we must set a security key that is only available to the wireless router and the wireless network adapter in your wireless home network. This security key must be known for communication purposes.

Generally, the same encryption method must be applied to all wireless network adapters in the wireless router and the home network. However, according to the age of network products, their supported encryption methods may be different. Therefore, the key is to find the highest security-level encryption method supported by all wireless NICs and wireless broadband routers. That is to say, if all your hardware supports WPA2, you can choose it. If one device does not support it, or replace it, or reduce all encryption methods to the encryption methods supported by the device.

Note: you must believe that even the 128-bit WEP encryption is good. It can block "curious" neighbors, but it will not block a real hacker attack. WPA2 is highly secure, and many large enterprises use it to encrypt wireless networks. Once the encryption method is selected, you need to set the Wireless Broadband Router and all the network adapters in your wireless network. Each device is "notified" of the superkeys used to join the session.