Securing Your Wireless Network
As a Realtor, I visit many homes every week. Frequently I’ll have my HP tablet PC with me so that I can take notes or have contracts available for clients that I meet. It never ceases to amaze me that I can walk into a home, turn on my computer and 1 out of 3 times have immediate access to the internet. This is not supposed to happen guys. Your wireless network should be secure… only you should be able to access it, not me, not your neighbor, not some dude driving down the street scoping out free internet connections.
Its really weird when several neighbors all unknowningly have unsecured wireless overlapping each other. The people in one house may be using their neighbor’s wireless internet thinking that they were in fact using their own. I was in a house once where the homeowner was telling me that he was in the process of moving his wireless box to another room so it was temporarily disconnected. He said that he couldn’t figure out why his internet was still working fine and assumed that the wireless box did not have to be plugged in to work. Of course it doesn’t have to be plugged in if you are stealing your neighbor’s wireless connection!
Stealing may be a strong word in this case, but I’m sure the neighbor may have noticed his internet has been running a little slower lately. The more users you have on a connection, the slower it becomes. But thats not the worst problem.
You’ve heard about those new wireless video cams. Some people install them all over the house so from many miles away they can keep an eye on the baby’s room, the pets, the garden, the entry doors. If someone can get access to your wireless network, it becomes all the easier for them to access your cameras and see whats going on in your own home. This could go on for months and you may never know it.
The solution is to secure your wireless system as soon as you install it in your home. The wireless box has 2 little antennas on it and its called a wireless access point or wireless router. Making it secure is not difficult, but you need to follow the step-by-step instructions that came with the unit. Most people only do step one which is to plug the unit in. If you keep reading, you’ll see a section that describes how to set up a secure password. Look for the initials WEP or Data Encryption and that should be checked on. You’ll have to store a password for each wireless computer in your home. Its not hard to do and you’ll have less reasons to worry about strangers having access to your home network.
About the Author
Anthony Iasi is an experienced Realtor both as a buyer’s agent and as a listing agent covering all of San Diego and Riverside counties new and resale homes. Certified as a Feng Shui advisor and e-Pro certified, I offer complete paperless transactions on the internet for busy corporate executives as well as one-on-one old fashioned service for the first time homebuyer.
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