How To Make A Secure Wi-Fi Network?

posted by Howtodoitbook on May 22, 2020

How To Make A Secure Wi-Fi Network?


Creating a secure Wi-Fi network is easy. Follow these tips and feel free to do some, if not all, for your own network.

Changing Defaults

The default settings are not enough to create a secure network.

One thing that is really important to understand is that the routers are sent with a default password, and depending on whether the router is used, yours may also have legacy security protocols enabled and random network ports open.Read More: https://teletype.in/@benjaminrobert/Open-vSwitch
Start by replacing the default password with something really safe. There are many strong examples of passwords that you can use to create your own router password.

If your router requires a username, change that too. This is usually admin and admin by default, so you want to replace it with something really unique. If it helps, consider the username as another password; A hacker must have both to connect to your router, so changing both makes your router more secure.

How to Create a Unique Username

You can also change the default gateway address. Some common standard private IP addresses used for routers include 192.168.1.1, 192.168.0.1 and 10.0.0.1. Make it completely different, making it difficult for an attacker to enter your network.

Create a Unique Wi-Fi Password

Believe it or not, most routers allow you to make a Wi-Fi network without requiring a password. This means that anyone who is literally close enough to your home can steal your Wi-Fi and access files on your computer.

Changing the Wi-Fi password is pretty easy. To do this, if you have completed the router password hint above, simply access the administrator settings on your router, which you already know how to do.

Your Wi-Fi password, like the router password, should be really hard to guess. It is definitely tempting to make it super simple, so when you share it with your friends, you won't mess with papers to find a 25-character password, but it really matters.

If someone can access your Wi-Fi password, they will have the same access as you, that is, they can also share and view files on the network. For a malicious hacker, this could mean spreading viruses and stealing important documents from your shared folders.

Do your best to make the Wi-Fi password really long. Especially 25 characters or more.

The reason for this is simple: Software that hackers use to attack wireless networks has length and complexity limitations. In other words, if you can make your password super long and complicated, basically there is no chance for someone to use automated attack tools (or guessing techniques) to find your Wi-Fi password.


Using Correct Wi-Fi Encryption

Encryption can be confusing, but the takeaway here is to enable the strongest encryption supported by your router. For most people, this means WPA2. If your router only supports WEP, it's time to buy a new router.
If you have a WPA2 capable modem, you should choose this setting.

Stop Showing SSID

SSID is the name of the Wi-Fi network. When it is shown, connecting is easy because anyone with a wireless device can find it.

When stopping the SSID makes it difficult for hackers to find it.

A hidden SSID is good, but it's not a sure way to stop an attacker. They can use data capture programs to “sniff” packets from your network to find the SSID.

If you don't want to disable SSID broadcasting from the router, at least change the default SSID. Hackers can use easily accessible lists of the most common SSIDs and create password cracking rainbow tables to make cracking much easier. Change the SSID and block such hacking attempts immediately.