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How to Secure Your Wireless Network: 101
Having a secure wireless network is very important. When you run an open network, you are potentially exposing anything you transmit or receive over the internet to anyone within range of your router. The range of your router, in many cases, can extend well beyond the walls of your apartment or house. Additionally, anyone who cares to can use an unsecured network to access the internet, and if these people chose to do anything illegal with your connection, it can be traced back to you, and nobody wants that. Securing your wireless network is simple, and there are a few ways to do it.
Use the CD that came with your router:
Most modern wireless routers or access points include a CD that will allow you to set up protected internet access on each computer. This option is fairly straight forward. The only downside to this is that many of the CDs contain "network monitoring" software that you simply do not need.
Set up a secured connection manually:
This option varies in it's steps a little bit depending on what brand of router you are using, but for the most part, they are very similar.
It is easiest to do this if you physically plug your computer into the router for the time being, and then follow these simple steps:
-Open your usual web browser and go to the router's IP address. This is almost always either 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1
-enter the user name and password for the router. This is almost always defaulted to user name admin, and password admin, or user name admin, and password password.
-look for a tab at the top that says wireless, choose the wireless tab, and look for a security sub tab, click on that.
-The screen you are looking at should be fairly simple, it should ask you to choose a security method, and then ask you to provide a pass phrase. The best method to use now seems to be WPA2, so we would recommend you chose that.
Once you have chosen your password and hit save, you can disconnect the computer from the wireless router. Look up your network on the wireless thingy, and enter the password you chose earlier. You should now be both connected, and secure.
The administration section of your router also will let you choose a new name for your wireless network, control access, and log activity. It is a pretty useful tool overall.
Lastly, most modern routers have a push button connection. This is another simple method. All you have to do is push the button for connection on your router, and then locate either the physical or virtual button on the device you wish to connect. Sometimes finding the connection option for this within windows or wireless manager programs on your computer can be difficult, so old fashioned though we may be, we generally stick with the password approach for connecting computers. The push button, though, can be extremely useful for connecting non-computer network devices like wireless printers.
This article was written and published by Varnes Computers, LLC. Please contact us at our website, http://www.varnespc.com with questions or concerns.
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