How Do You Protect Your Home Wireless Access Point?

1.	How Do You Protect Your Home Wireless Access Point?
Answer» There are a LOT of DIFFERENT ways to protect a WIRELESS ACCESS Point: using WPA2, not broadcasting the SSID, and using MAC address filtering are the most popular among them. There are many other options, but in a typical home environment, those three are the biggest. By now you have seen more than a fair amount of troubles. You have got a toolkit of regularly used programs, a standard suite of protection utilities, you're comfortable with cleanups.

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There are a LOT of DIFFERENT ways to protect a WIRELESS ACCESS Point: using WPA2, not broadcasting the SSID, and using MAC address filtering are the most popular among them.
There are many other options, but in a typical home environment, those three are the biggest.
By now you have seen more than a fair amount of troubles. You have got a toolkit of regularly used programs, a standard suite of protection utilities, you're comfortable with cleanups.

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