Home Wi-Fi Tuneup: Practical Steps You Can Take to Speed Up, Stabilize, and Secure Your Home Wi-Fi by Buchanan Marlon

Author:Buchanan, Marlon [Buchanan, Marlon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: HomeTechHacker
Published: 2020-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

Wi-Fi Security Culprit #2:

You haven’t changed the default settings on your router

Symptoms:

1. Your router login username and password are something like “admin” and “password.”

2. The name of your Wi-Fi network (SSID) includes the brand of the router.

3. Your router’s firewall isn’t enabled.

4. You are not using WPA2 or WPA3 security.

5. Your router admin interface is accessible on the Internet.

Diagnosis:

1. Log in to your router (is the username/password “admin”/”password”?). Check to make sure that your firewall is enabled, you are using WPA2 and/or WPA3 security on your Wi-Fi, and that you have a non-default name for your Wi-Fi network. Find the setting to disable remote access (access from the Internet) to your router.

There are many more steps to properly secure your router, but if you take care of these your Wi-Fi network will be much more secure. Leaving settings at the defaults allows hackers to more easily compromise your home network. Many hackers target specific brands of routers and leaving the brand in your Wi-Fi name signals to hackers the brand of your router as well as that it may have other default settings they can exploit.

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