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Monday, October 6, 2014

How to secure your Wi-Fi hotspot from neighbors freeloaders

In this tutorial I'll explain a way to protect your Wi-Fi access point from prying eyes.



Instruction



Difficulty level: Easy



What you will need:



Wi-Fi access point



step 1



Go to any browser, enter the address of your access point and the control panel point, enter the username and password.



2 step



Then go to the tab Advanced Setting and change the value of the Broadcast ESSID to Disabled (To make the point became invisible ) and press Apply.



3 step



Then go into the Security tab, set Encryption to WPA pre-shared key, WPA Unicast Cipher Suite set WPA2 , then enter the Pre-shared Key (at least 8 characters) and press Apply.



step 4



For full protection you can enable filtering based on MAC addresses, go to the tab MAC Filtering, put glocko to Enable Wireless Access Control, and after adding the MAC address click Aplly.



5 step



After all this, you need to restart your Wi-Fi hotspot for the changes to take effect.



PS. Better before setting up to make a backup.



6 step



After all this, go to “Wireless & networks”, then click “Add...” and in the appeared window enter the settings of your point, after that check all that 2 times and click “OK”.



7 step



After that, you can be sure, that none of you will not connect and will not have for your account free Internet.



P. S.Лучше to change the standard harolds log in to the control panel Wi-Fi point to some other.



8 step



I am a programmer with 15 years experience, recently with the laptop went into a cafe:



- Girl, you have Wi-Fi there?



- Have.



And somewhere socket is next to the table?



"Young man, you probably just don't cut, please understand that Wi-Fi is not



wire him the wall outlet is not needed, it is in the air!

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