Comments on: 10 Tips To Secure A Home Wireless Network

By: azedas101

azedas101 — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:44:28 +0000

Hide your IP and save from hackers.by installing hotspot shield on your PC and browse through it.

By: azedas101

azedas101 — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:18:52 +0000

U have all tried in ur comments but I would like to introduce to u all that there are more secured routers that authomatically change passphrase from time to time after putting the normal one in connecting a new system to the network which make it difficult for hacker to get it exact passphrass.

Thanks.

Send ur comments.

By: Brian G

Brian G — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:20:36 +0000

@Drak: Were did your 3 billion figure come from? 40 Characters gives way way more than 3 billion possible passwords. Good job too, a computer could try 3 billion quite quickly.

By: dumi

dumi — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:03:59 +0000

Hi.
I think it 's very helpful for IT students.So I would like to say thanks for auther.

By: Dirko

Dirko — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:57:48 +0000

I think the article is a good summary and the criticism of it is not well justified. Some of the measures can indeed be circumvented by the determined, but all little bits help. The thing that could improve the article is a better indication of the pros, cons and effectiveness of the different measures, and a top three of things must do.

By: Drak

Drak — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:48:53 +0000

I read this and I have to do some laughing, Its easy to find a hidden SSID and IP Address, its a little more but not that complicated to mimic an ip address and/or MAC address, you best protection would run WPA2 if you can and use a random generated 40 character password that will be almost impossible to crack, that would give over 3 billion possible combination to hack through and right now even with the fastest computers, it would years before it crack

By: Tutorial Guru

Tutorial Guru — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:20:27 +0000

Great info. I added this website to my favorites. Thank you

By: Billybob

Billybob — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:54:41 +0000

A lot of this advice is old provisional measures and actually counter-productive. Some of above advice is crucial and yet is downplayed.

There are three important things to do:

1) secure your router by changing SSID and password. Making it invisible causes you more trouble than a hacker.
2)Use strong wireless encryption:- WPA or WPA2 with 20+ char password
3) change the password often enough to be sure it's not getting leaked out or shared.

MAC filtering will also cause you more trouble than a hacker. They can get right past it.