Teach You How to Protect WiFi Wireless Network

Protect your router to avoid others from changing your settings

John Munoz Google's technical project manager at Google's official blog recently posted an article to explain how to protect WiFi wireless network security, given the home WiFi network has been very popular, how to prevent neighbors by attacking your home WiFi network has also become a reality problem, this article describes a few simple and effective way to enhance the security of WiFi networks, full text translation is as follows.

There are more than a quarter of Internet users at home using WiFi Internet access, but many people do not know how to protect and the importance of doing a home network. In this respect, the most appropriate idea is to your home WiFi network considered its own front door: Only the strong anti-lock to ensure its own security.

When the data over insecure WiFi network for transmission, the data you send or receive are likely to be intercepted near the person. Neighbors may also use your WiFi network access, reduce your network speed. Enhance the security of the home network is not only to protect the security of your information when you wireless Internet, but also helps to protect all types of devices connected to the network.

If you want to upgrade the security of the home WiFi network, take the following steps may be helpful.

1. Check the home WiFi network security measures which have been using for the first time when your friends into your homes, using your home WiFi network, whether you need to enter your password? If not, then your network is not secure enough. Even if they need to enter a password, there are many ways to protect your home network, and there are pros and cons of the points between these methods. You have to understand what their own network protection measures by looking at WiFi network settings. Your network may be unsafe, it may have been added Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), Wireless Networks Secure Access (WPA) or second-generation wireless network access security (WPA2) and other protective measures. Which is the earliest WEP wireless security protocol, ineffective. WPA is better than WEP, but WPA2 is the best choice.

2. Protect your router to avoid others from changing your settings for your router needs to set up a separate password to the password-protected WiFi networks differ. Generally do not buy a new router password, or just have a simple default password, many cyber criminals are already aware of this password. If you do not reset the router password, criminals anywhere in the world can easily break into your network, intercept your data sharing over the network, and the network is connected to the computer attack. Many routers can reset the password in the settings page. This password can not tell other people, and the need to distinguish between (as in step c above) and WiFi password. If you set the same password for both, anyone with your home WiFi password people will be able to change your home wireless router settings.

3. Set a strong password for your WiFi network in order to use WPA2 protected network, you need to create a password. Choose a unique password is very important, it is best to use a long password by numbers, letters and symbols, so that others can not easily be guessed. If you are at home in this private place, you can also record your password in case you forget, and safe custody, so as not to lose. In addition, you also need to facilitate the use of a password, so that friends can connect to your home WiFi network visit. As you will not own the keys to strangers, home WiFi password can only tell a trusted person.

4. Place your network security settings to WPA2 WiFi signal is generated by the home wireless router generated. If your network is not WPA2 protection, you will need to access the router settings page to make changes. You can access the router's user manual for how to access the settings page, or search online for their own use to guide the router. All routers have WiFi trademark in 2006 after the sale support WPA2. If you purchased an earlier model, we recommend that you replace the new router supports WPA2. Because it is safer, faster.

5. If you need help, please consult the instructions for use of the router's manual if you lose, you can also find a home base station or router model used in search engines, much of the information the device can be found on the Internet. If this does not work, you can also seek help from the router manufacturer or network service provider. If you need to know more about how to protect themselves and their families safe online advice, please visit Google's website must know little knowledge.