Setting Home wireless internet system

Setting Home wireless internet system.

In this article there are details to setup your home wireless internet system and its security methods to apply. Wireless router to set up a wireless home net working system you have to buy a wireless router. There are many brands of wireless routers.

Assuming that Your Internet service provider is already given you the connection / suppluy.

Then with a wireless router you can use your laptop any where in the house.

Now assuming you get it setup and your other computers are also working.

Off course you have to put wireless Ethernet card into your computers or these devices might have the inbuilt wireless card. In any condition these will pick the signals from wireless router.

The next most important is your privacy and cost which you might pay if you shall not password protect your wireless connection in home network.

USERS FROM OUT SIDE OF YOUR HOUSE: It is the default setup which allows anybody with a wireless network card and once within range the user who might be your neighbor, shall connect to your network and enjoy the internet.

In this case your internet service provider will or may charge you extra for going over your monthly download limit. So some one is downloading tons of stuff.

Here will be two types of Damages

1.You will get high bill.

2.The neighbor will access your files on your computer and you shall loose all critical data, like bank account Number, credit card number passwords, Ids and many more

What to do in this scenario?

If you acquire the following steps there will be a secure network, means nobody can enter or login to your wireless system.

How to Password Protect Your Routers configuration page?

***If it has a default login and password, then change it.

Most wireless routers use an internet browser to access them and configure/ reconfigure the settings. Here you can set a password so no one can change your settings and no one can login to your wireless system.

Use WEP Encryption: Now WEP encryption isn't completely safe, in fact it can be hacked. But it will be one more thing to get past before getting into your network.

WEP uses an encryption key and the router and all wireless cards in your home network will use to get access to each other.

Importance of the key size: Key sizes are usually 64 bit or 128bit, but Dlink have some with 256 bits. You should use the highest encryption rate provided to you.

You should for safety and hacking, change your WEP key frequently.

Turn off SSID Broadcasting: Routers By default will broadcasting the name of your home network. Turn this off.

Matching SSID: Every computer in your network must be set with your matching SSID.

MAC Filtering: Every network device is assigned a very unique alphanumeric serial code called a MAC address.

How to trace MAC address: Your routers config page presents your Wireless cards MAC address.

Adding Mac addresses: Add the wireless cards MAC addresses in your routers configuration enable MAC filtering and add the wireless cards MAC addresses to the list of MAC addresses.

Limit the amount of possible connections to your network:

1. By default your router will assign each connection using DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) an IP address.

2. It will also have a range of IP numbers to assign.

3. Setup by default to allow 100 connections to connect.

4. It will have a starting IP address and an ending IP address.

5. Always narrow the range down to as many computers you have in your network.

Final action: Be a hero to protect your wireless connection and its bill.

Lower the Broadcast Strength:

There will be less chance of your neighbors to get strong signal to connect to your network. Once they shall be

login and the internet shall not work for them, they leave you and go some where else to
get the wireless connection.

Taking care of other things: Never let any body who is friend of your friend and while comes to your home, requests you to use the computer.

TIPs.

Always note down the mac address of all devices/computers after setting the system. It will be required when you get some trouble shooting situation.