Generally when you buy a wireless router and plug it in, there is totally no safety defense whatsoever. Most of them work right out of the box, but have no superintendent or only the default password set, do not encrypt data, do not use a network key, and broadcast the SSID in public. If you’ve found this article, you’re almost certainly trying to figure out how to make your wireless network supplementary secure.
One great way that I am going to talk about in this show is disable the SSID broadcast for your wireless router. The SSID is in point of fact the name of the wireless network, which by default is usually the name of the networking company, such as Net gear, LinkSys, or D-Link. By turning off the broadcast, the name of the network will not show up on the Windows or Mac list of obtainable networks. This method of safekeeping by no means will prevent a hacker from receiving into your network, but it’s still better than doing nothing at all.
In fact, this is really only obliging for those people who live in apartments, condos, dorms, etc where other people live very close by and can pick up your signal and use your bandwidth to look through the net. A good hacker has many tools that can detect wireless networks even if the SSID broadcast is disabling!
Unluckily, each brand of router has the put out of action SSID under different menus! I’ll go ahead and try to give instructions for each of the major brands since that’ll take care of 99% of the wireless users. In order to do this, you’ll have to logon to your router to arrange it. You can get the IP address of the router by going to Start, choosing Run, typing cmd, clicking OK and then typing in ipconfig at the authority prompt.
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