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Photos: How to secure your home wireless network
April 11, 2007 11:34 AM PDT
Getting started with wireless security
This slide show assumes that you have a working wireless router. For our network we'll be using a Linksys Wireless-G WRT54GS router plugged into a Dell XPS 600 desktop along with a wireless-enabled Acer Travelmate 8200 laptop, both machines running Windows XP SP2. Over the next few slides we'll discuss how to:
- Change the router's default admin password
- Change the router's network name SSID
- Enable encryption (WEP and WPA)
- Filter devices via MAC addresses
To learn secure your wireless laptop on public hotspots, see my How to secure your wireless laptop slide show as well.
Photo credit: CNET Networks
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