Wireless Security

If you have a wireless network it is important to set it up so that no one else can access it. You might think that sharing your internet connection is not a big problem, you might be on a plan that doesn't have any usage limits, but there are far greater concerns when it comes to unauthorised access to your internet connection.

People might use your connection for criminal activity, releasing viruses, sending spam, visiting objectionable web sites or other purposes that you really don't want associated with your internet connection. This misuse will be traced back to you not the person using your wireless access point.

Home users should at the very minimum implement the following basic security options available in nearly all wireless access points:
1. Turn on WEP encrytption
2. Turn off broadcast SSID
3. Enable MAC address filtering and allow only your computers to connect to the wireless access point

Business users should consider the above options but using WPA instead of WEP and maybe RADIUS for further protection.