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Tips to Secure Your Home Wi-Fi Network

  • Date: Jul 10, 2009.

Contents

  1. Use Encryption Preferably WPA2
  2. Use Strong Encryption Keys
  3. Save Your Encryption Key
  4. Dont Connect to Other Networks
  5. Periodically Check Your Network Profile List and Settings
  6. Use a Firewall
  7. Keep Hardware Updated
  8. Grant Access Only to Your Computers and Devices
  9. Hide Your Network

Article Description

Going wireless at home allows us freedom, but it also opens up more possibilities of allowing uninvited users like our neighbors or hackers. Eric Geier, author of Wi-Fi Hotspots: Setting Up Public Wireless Internet Access, points out important steps beyond encryption to secure your home Wi-Fi network.

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Use Strong Encryption Keys

Use Strong Encryption Keys

Simply enabling encryption is a huge step toward making your Wi-Fi network safe. However, you can make it even more secure if you create and use a strong encryption passphrase/key. For WPA passphrases, this means using both upper and lower case letters, numbers, and punctuation (any ASCII character), up to 63 characters long. For example, f8!U&1:C>0x;5i*wU2^bQ9(dJ4f#9v is tremendously more secure than using mynetpass for the passphrase.

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