5 Simple Ways to Protect the Wi-Fi Connection

• September 1, 2012 • 8 Comments

If you are a professional blogger or in a business where you rely completely, or just say partially, on the Wi-Fi internet then here’s an alarming bell for you – hackers target Wi-Fi networks quite often and try to extract all the important credentials. Using Wi-Fi for internet is actually really convenient because you don’t need wires, hence you can move around and use the internet at the same time. When you surf Internet using the Wi-Fi, your data travels through an unsecured channel which can be easily extracted out. Also, if someone does something wrong using your Wi-Fi connection then the cyber police will first reach you and there are chances that they might even take you down for interrogation!  So, how to protect your Wi-Fi connection?

Here a 5 Simple Ways to Protect the Wi-Fi Connection.

Use VPN Service                                                                 

I have already mentioned above that when you use your Wi-Fi for surfing internet your data flows through an un-secured channel. This is where VPN comes into play. When you use your internet connection to surf internet, provided you are using the VPN service, your data will flow through a much secured channel from where no data can be extracted out.

Change the Router’s Password

By default the router’ username:password is “admin:admin” or sometimes it’s “administrator:password”. Actually all the hackers know this thing, so it becomes quite important to change this, before something really bad happens. For changing router’s password, you just need to go into your router’s settings and search for something like “passwords”. In my case it is Management>Access Controls>Passwords. It’s different in each case.

Change the SSID Name

The SSID name is the name of your Wi-Fi network. Changing SSID name can at least help a bit. If you will change your network’s SSID name to something like “YOUR NAME” then it will be easy for your neighbors to identify it. This also can lead to less confusion.

Use MAC Address

Enabling MAC address will help you to great extent because it allows only a certain group of computers or devices to connect to the Wi-Fi connection. This way, you can just let your computer and phones connect to the Internet, no one else would be able to connect to your network then. Make sure that you don’t share your MAC Address with anyone.

Reduce Signal Strength

It is not possible to connect to the internet if the signal’s range is quite low. You can make use of this bug. You can reduce your router’s signal strength by contacting your ISP and this  way you won’t allow anyone standing outside your home connect to your Wireless network.