How to share your WiFi network safely

How to share your WiFi network safely

Anyone with your wifi password can browse the hard drive of your computer and the folders you share. Worse, it is very possible to use your IP address to do illegal acts downloading copyrighted material, such as music or movies, or downright illegal material, such as some forms of pornography, that could be traced back to your internet connection, for which you are ultimately liable.

Here are some tips to protect your network:

Make the network's signal invisible
The best precautions are to make sure that Wifi can not be detected when others search it. Routers provide an option to prevent network name transmission. They are usually found in WIFI settings under the name Broadcast SSID.

Change the Wi-Fi password regularly
To reduce the risk of intrusion, renew the Wi-Fi password every month or every two months. The password can be changed from the control interface in the modem, accessible from a web browser.
  AES / WPA2 is the most protected encryption feature currently.

Update The modem  and change its password
There are often gaps exploited by the hackers to control the network and even to the computer, and to protect your computer update the latest update available on the factory or Internet provider, and do not forget to change the password of the modem, which is the same for all the positions of the factory and therefore Weak and easy to penetrate but do not forget to memorize well so as not to lose your access to the muddle.

Open the network only for the device you want
MAC Adress Filter Allows you to allow or deny access to computers by name. This is theoretically the ultimate tip to avoid any intrusion on the private network.