Comments on: 6 Steps to Secure Your Home Wireless Network

By: The Beginner’s Guide to The Geek Stuff – A Guided Tour

The Beginner’s Guide to The Geek Stuff – A Guided Tour — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:09:16 +0000

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By: Ramesh Natarajan

Ramesh Natarajan — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:02:04 +0000

@Jarav, Steve H Thanks for your comment. I'm glad you found this article helpful and secured your wireless router. @Cushman, Changing wireless key frequently is a good idea. But, it may not be possible for most people to change it every 3 days for WPA-Personal encryption. May be once in a month is reasonable? -- not from pure security point of view. @Mohit, I'm not sure what model of ADSL router you have. Some models don't allow unlocking. I've seen few unlocked firmware for some ADSL routers floating around. The tricky part is that you've to find a way to put the unlocked firmware in the flash, as most firmware will detect any changes to the flash and will not allow it. @Bruno, Thanks for bookmarking this page. I appreciate it. For those, who need to return, bookmark this page at del.icio.us for handy reference.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:52:32 +0000

I wish I found your post much earlier when I was setting up my wireless network. Would have saved me a lot of time. Going into my bookmarks for future reference.

By: 4 Easy Steps To Upgrade Linksys Wireless Router Firmware

4 Easy Steps To Upgrade Linksys Wireless Router Firmware — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:02:14 +0000

[...] 4 Easy Steps To Upgrade Linksys Wireless Router Firmware Posted on June 8th, 2009 by Ramesh Natarajan Filed Under: General Free eBook – Linux 101 Hacks. Get your copy now. If you own a Linksys Wireless router, it is strongly recommended that you upgrade the firmware to a latest version, which may resolve lot of bugs including random dropping of wireless connections. This article explains how to upgrade to the latest firmware on your Linksys wireless router. Also, make sure you’ve secured your wireless as mentioned in 6 Steps to Secure Your Home Wireless Network [...]

By: Mohit

Mohit — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:45:04 +0000

Do you have any idea how to unlock ADSL router that works only on some prefered connections?

By: ie Community » Blog Archive » Is Your Home Wireless Router Secure?

ie Community » Blog Archive » Is Your Home Wireless Router Secure? — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:09:14 +0000

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By: Cushman

Cushman — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:29:57 +0000

Use WPA2-Enterprise, if possible (requires RADIUS). Lower the
output power of the device, and never keep any personal or
financial information on the laptop. I use my wired PC for that.
Finally, have the router turn off wireless capabilities when you’re
not around, and have a system log (syslog) running. If using
WPA2 Ent. , change the key hourly. If using WPA2-Personal,
use a 63 character random key, and change this as often as
is tolerable (when I did use personal, my toleration level was
about every 3 days). On the laptop, if you must have personal
information on it, use encrypted file system or some other
file system encryption. This is good practice regardless of
whether it uses a wireless connection or not. Turn off auto-connect
on the laptop.

By: Steve H

Steve H — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:23:30 +0000

Thanks for that, I now have secure Wi Fi..

By: jarav

jarav — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:29:03 +0000

Thanks for the article. It was helpful.

By: mbridge

mbridge — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:13:18 +0000

Just to take this discussion further, you may want to follow-up with other tips for securing home computer systems. Security the wireless connection is a good first step, though it is only one way people get hacked. Home users should also ensure they secure their web-browser, OS, applications, etc. Here are some further tips if people are interested:

http://www.mbridge.com/security_advice_home_users.html