• Change the default administrator usernames and passwords. Router manufacturers set a default username and password as an access protection. However, these sets of default username and passwords are of simple logins vulnerable to Internet hackers. To ensure utmost login secrecy, change the default immediately.
• Activate compatible WPA and/or WEP Encryption. All wireless fidelity equipment have support for a form of encryption. Encryption is a technology that makes messages unreadable by humans when you sent it over a network, may it be LAN or wireless. Of course, you’d want to have the strongest encryption that is available for you to use with the wireless network you have.

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