How To Protect Your WiFi Network From Hackers

How To Protect Your WiFi Network From Hackers

I'm going to share easy methods to protect your WiFi network. Follow this full post to know more about securing your WiFi network.

Today billions of people are utilizing their personal WiFi networks at theirs home and at their workplaces. But many people claims that their WiFi network speed get slows suddenly or their WiFi being hacked. 

There can be numerous reasons behind it that I will discuss in this post. Many of people believe that putting up a simple password is adequate to secure their WiFi networks, but actually, this is totally wrong because today an amateur hacker can easily hack your WiFi password. So there must be some extra security to secure your WiFi networks.

So below are the methods to Protect WiFi Network From Hackers. Just implement this method and you will be all secure from WiFi hacking attacks.

How To Protect Your WiFi Network From Hackers

The below method’s will work in your router settings page which you can open by entering an ipconfig command in cmd of your computer and then check the default gateway address for ex:-192.168.1.1 .Now open this address in your computer browser and enter the login id and password of your WiFi modem.

How to Protect WiFi Network From Hackers

Set Strong Password

First of all, open your router setting page by your default gateway of your network and then create a unique or different password for your router so that nobody else can use your router setting and access your network.

Change Network SSID

You can change your network SSID name as every router comes with a default name i.e “default” you can do this by going to a wireless basic setting page in your routers setting and then rename it.

Network Encryption

The most important thing, enable network encryption as many of ours used to use no encryption this is not a the good habit, always set a network encryption to your router in order to secure your network.

Filter Mac Addresses

You can  filter your MAC address to do this, first of all, make a list of allhardware devices that you want to connect and get their mac address and add them to mac address filtering in your router administration page you can get the mac address of any devices under the settings of their network.

WiFi Signal Range

If your WiFi signal is very much strong and you use WiFi only in a short area then you should reduce your WiFi signal range of your router. So to do so change the mode of your router to 802.11g in place of 802.11n or 802.11b.

Upgrade Firmware Of Router

To fully secure your WiFi network this step is very much important. Upgrade the firmware of your router if available in the dashboard of router settings. upgrading your firmware might help you a lot because it may bring up upgraded features and privacy system.

So preceding are the conventional methods to Secure your personal WiFi network from an unauthorized access. By applying all these, you will get fully protected from WiFi hacking attacks by the hackers and you can enjoy the full speed of your WiFi network. Don’t forget to share this helpful post. Leave a comment below, if you face any problem at any step.