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As a wireless router, set up your home or small business networks more easily than before. Is not the laying of cables, no drilling through walls, simply connect, configure, and go. However, also easier than ever to attack the network, because the wireless router.

If and when your router settings, you do not need to change the administrator name and password, or if you are broadcasting your SSID, (or, if you do not understand what all this), then there may be others, you can enter the network laundering and use connections Your broadband for their own evil means.

So let us for a minute, look at the ways different to “lock” your wireless Internet connection, make sure only the people access to it is that you have a special permit.

First of all, your router’s configuration screen. This is done through the Internet browser. Please go ahead and open your Internet browser. In the address bar, type the address of your router.Most routers use 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 addresses one of their standards. Your router manual will tell you the address. When you enter the correct address, you’ll see the username / password screen. Enter the correct value here, you will be in the configuration screen. The following steps will not be specific to your router, because each manufacturer will have a different layout of their control. Instead, this guide will tell you the general steps – refer to your guide for information about.

1. Change the administrator name and password. There will be a tab or section labeled “Administrator”, or something similar. In that section you will be able to change the password and, possibly, the administrator name. (Some routers don’t let you specify a name, just a password.) For the name, do not use Administrator, Admin or your name. Instead, use something more unique. Is your house blue? Then how about “bluehouse”? Or maybe “homsweethom”? You get the idea – something hard for the bad guys to guess. For the password, again use something hard to guess. Never use “1234″ or “pass”. Use a secure password. Something that combines upper and lower case letters, numbers and non-alpha-numeric characters. Something like “@miCKy573mOusE”.
2. Don’t broadcast the network name. In the Wireless section or tab, there will be an option to broadcast the network name, or SSID. This means your router sends out the network name to make it easier to detect and connect to it. Well, if the bad guys can’t see your network, it’ll be harder to leach onto it. Make sure the option to broadcast the name is turned off.
3. Use a security type. In the Wireless Security section, you have the option to set the security type. Never select None or Disabled. This would leave your wireless signal wide open for anyone to use. If you have WPA as an option, use that, or at the very least, select WEP security.
4. Use a DNS filter. There will be a section where you can exclude all computers except those with certain DNS values. The DNS value is a string of characters generated by the computer’s network adapter. This string is unique to every computer. So by entering just your family’s DNS strings, you’ll be allowing those computers access, but preventing access from everyone else. To find a computer’s DNS string, click on Start, then type CMD and press Enter. (For XP click Start, then Run, and then type CMD and press Enter.) In the black command window, type “ipconfig -all” (without the quotes) and press Enter. In the section that describes your wireless adapter, you’ll see a line showing the physical address. That’s the DNS string.
5. Do not allow wireless configuration of the router. There may be a checkbox to allow wireless configuration of the router. When this option is turned off, only a computer that is connected to the router via a LAN cable will be able to make changes to the configuration. This will prevent anyone from making changes unless they’re physically plugged into your network.

If you implement all of these steps, you can rest assured that only you and the people you specifically authorize will access your wireless connection. There will be no way the bad guys will be able to get into it.

Two more things: If you’ve changed the network name, encryption type, or pass phrase, you’ll probably have to re-enter the security key before reconnecting any computers to the wireless network. Which brings us to the second thing…

After setting all of the values above take a moment to write them in a Notepad document and then print it out and put it someplace safe. That way if you need to connect another computer to the wireless network, you have values easily accessible. Here’s an example of the values to save:

Wireless address: 192.168.1.0
Administrator Name: BlueHouse
Password: #$thISISmypAss@
SSID: OurNetwork
Security Key: 3VT8dXqj5+-z9BSVAWW7

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