How to Secure Your Home Wireless Network

Wireless Router Owners Beware!

With everyone cutting the cord and going wireless, keeping your home network secure is important now more than ever. Strangers can be using your wireless Internet connection without you realizing it! Their activities not only slow down your connection but you may also be paying extra overage charges from all the movies, music and other data they are accessing.

Outsiders using your router might gain access to your computer and all your web browsing activities including banking and online shopping transactions – possibly opening yourself up to identity theft.

To make matters even worse, you can be held legally liable for the possibly illegal acts your freeloading neighbors commit while using your wireless connection.

With more and more home devices such as televisions, media players, thermostats, smoke detectors, security cameras, lamps, refrigerators and washing machines getting connected to “connected homes” in the new world of “The Internet of Things”, locking down your wireless network is even more critical than ever.

Have you made your mobile phone into a mobile hotspot? Does your motor vehicle have a built-in mobile hotspot? Do you carry around a mobile hotspot? If so then you need this book as well!

Topics include:

• How to choose the best available security options to toughen your wireless network and make it nearly impossible for someone to steal your Internet access.
• How to identify your equipment.
• How to access the configuration settings of your router.
• The best places to physically locate your wireless router for a fast and clear connection.
• How to identify potential sources of interference and how to avoid or reduce the interference from them.
• A step by step plan to cautiously use free public wireless hotspots.

Also included is a large appendix of general networking terms and information.