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To: agitator

I secured my wireless router with a password about a month ago. However, how do you do the WPA, and the SSID?


7 posted on 07/05/2005 11:44:02 PM PDT by Sprite518
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To: Sprite518

What type (brand) of router do you have?


9 posted on 07/05/2005 11:50:10 PM PDT by South40 (Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: Sprite518
Set your wireless router to not broadcast the SSID. Then, make up a SSID which is difficult to guess, like you would a password - e.g., use @ for 'a' and 0 for 'o' in the SSID. That plus password encryption (the highest your router will support - mine uses 128-bit) will go a long way.

Also: change your password regularly. One good strategy for creating passwords is to take a poem or a limerick you know, and use the first initials of every word to form the password.

47 posted on 07/06/2005 4:49:39 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (If this isn't the End Times it certainly is a reasonable facsimile...)
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