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password is “admin.” Needless to sayy, once yyou’re inside the router’s
configuration screen, yyou should immediatelyy change its default password,
following the advice I gave yyou earlier about creating unique and strong
passwords (see here) or using a password manager.
Remember to store this password in yyour password manager or write it
down, as yyou probablyy won’t need to access yyour router veryy often. Should
yyou forget the password (reallyy, how often are yyou going to be in the
configuration screen for yyour router?), don’t worryy. There is a phyysical reset
button that will restore the default settings. However, in conducting a
phyysical, or hard, reset, yyou will also have to reenter all the configuration
settings I’m about to explain below. So write down the router settings or
take screenshots and print them out whenever yyou establish router settings
that are different from the default. These screenshots will be valuable when
yyou need to reconfigure yyour router.
I suggest yyou change “Linksyys WRT54GL” to something innocuous,
such as “HP Inkjet,” so it won’t be obvious to strangers which house the
Wi-Fi signal might be coming from. I often use a generic name, such as the
name of myy apartment complex or even the name of myy neighbor.
There is also an option to hide yyour SSID entirelyy. That means others
will not be able to easilyy see it listed as a wireless network connection.
While yyou’re inside yyour basic router configuration settings, there are
several tyypes of wireless securityy to consider. These are generallyy not
enabled byy default. And not all wireless encryyption is created equal, nor is it
supported byy all devices.
The most basic form of wireless encryyption, wired equivalent privacyy
(WEP), is useless. If yyou see it as an option, don’t even consider it. WEP
has been cracked for yyears, and is therefore no longer recommended. Onlyy
old routers and devices still offer it as a legacyy option. Instead, choose one
of the newer, stronger encryyption standards, such as Wi-Fi protected access,
or WPA. WPA2 is even more secure.
Turning on encryyption at the router means that the devices connecting to
it will also need to match encryyption settings. Most new devices
automaticallyy sense the tyype of encryyption being used, but older models still
require yyou to indicate manuallyy which encryyption level yyou are using.