How can you secure wireless LAN? can anyone recommend encryption methods to be used? :D Ty
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Sign on to your router’s address, typically http://192.168.2.1/
From home page/menu settings, go to Wireless / Security.
Select WPA-PSK option
Select TKIP option (if applicable)
Enter your new password for your wireless network.
FYI – Your laptops/desktops MAY need to be reconnected/reconfigured with this info after you establish the secure connection. You do this by right-clicking on your network icon in the bottom right of your screen, and re-establishing the connections between your laptop and the wireless connection in your home/apt.
In a browser address bar, type 192.168.X.X (look in user manual for exact address for administration interface address) & find the Settings for Security (or similar):
Set for WPA (or WPA2 if your computers support this level) & AES.
(Use WEP only as a last resort: it’s apprentice work to crack).
Also;
Turn off ‘SSID’ broadcast;
Disable: UPnP & QoS (unless using VoIP),
Enable: Router management user-name & bulletproof pass-phrase (not the same as Internet access password, which would be the PSK (pre-shared key)).
Note: Mac address filtering will prevent accidental & casual freeloaders, but will not deter committed hackers. Mac addresses are on the front end of packets, therefore unencrypted and as such, easily copied and used to ‘spoof’ packets; enabling a ‘man in the middle’ attacks.
You might want to also set (in ‘Connections’) as ‘always connected’ to prevent disconnects when there is no activity to or from the Internet.
Computer settings:
If you’re using Windows to configure your Wifi, go to Control Panel> Wireless Network Connections> Wireless Networks tab; here you’ll need to identify all wifi networks your system ‘sees’, then for your own (or preferred) network, highlight it, then ‘move up’ to the top of the list: then, go to ‘Advanced’ button, tick ‘access points only’ and uncheck ‘Automatically connect to non-preferred networks’>close> OK
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