Photos: How to secure your home wireless network

We take the trouble out of securing your home wireless network.

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.

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