Tuesday, June 10, 2008

How to secure wireless connection


How to secure wireless connection

How to make your wireless connection MORE secure, is disable broadcast SSID/ Disable AP broadcast, this means, on other pc not able to know / scan your SSID

Yourself also not able to see it, so on your own computer you need to manually add in your wireless setting like your SSID , Network key

For existing connection what you can do is, just tick on “connect even if the network in not broadcasting”

Start >> connect to >> your wireless name>> right click >> properties >> connection tab >> tick on “connect even if the network in not broadcasting”




For new computer you haven’t connect to this network before, you need to connect to wireless manually

Start >> connect to >> set up a connection or network >> manually connect to a wireless network >> feel in network information >> e.g wireless name /SSID, and your network key /security key/ passphrase , please do remember to tick on “connect even if the network in not broadcasting” and click on next … done



How to disable SSID broadcast, below are my router setting UNTICK on enable SSID Broadcast



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