Wireless Security

I saw a post on mylot where someone has a wireless router setup. and a person/neighbor is connecting to that router to gain access to the internet. Well that prompted this post so here go's

First off I would enable MAC Address filtering. The screen shot is an example from a belkin router.

Turn it on and then program in your MAC Address you can get this by opening a command prompt which you can find by
Clicking on Start
Then Click on Run
you will get a place to put a command in to Run type in cmd and press enter the following screeen will come up









Where you see the c:\> type in ipconfig /all
In this example you will see a link that says Physical Address this is the MAC Address on the router you will need to enter that mac address or else you wont be able to gain access to it.

Now you will need to set the security up. click on the security line in the example and enable it. I recomend setting it to WPA-PSK for the current best security. There are other options there. and it will need to be set according to what the computer has available not all wireless network cards have that particular security incription in that. You can leave the defualt incription set that is fine. Then you will need to set the password.

Once the Security is set up on the Router you will need to setup the wirless network card usually when you connect it will prompt you for the security password. you can set the save the password or Key which ever you prefer to call it. I have one that has over 30 character as the key.

I hope this helps.