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1. Change the default passwords as most network devices have a pre-configured default password and these are easily found online. 2. Install a firewall directly onto your wireless devices (a host-based firewall). Attackers who directly intercept your wireless network may be able to by-pass your network firewall and so this does not offer sufficient protection. 3. Restrict access — only allow authorised users to access your network. Each piece of hardware connected to a network has a MAC (media access control) address. Restrict or allow access to your network by filtering MAC addresses. The MAC address is a unique identifier for networking hardware such as wireless network adapters. A hacker can capture details about a MAC address from your network and pretend to be that device to connect to your network. MAC filtering will still protect you from majority of the hackers. Find the MAC address for your network adapters on your devices by following these steps: 1. Go to Start > Run 2. Type command and press [Enter] 3. Type ipconfig /all in the command prompt window and press [Enter] 4. You can view the physical access address in the information displayed. 4. Check the user documentation to get specific information about the MAC Filtering process if you have any more queries. 5. Encrypt the data on your network. Encrypting the data would prevent anyone who might somehow be able to access your network from viewing your data. 6. Protect your SSID (Service Set Identifier — An SSID is the name of a WLAN). The SSID on wireless clients can be set either manually, by entering the SSID into the client network settings, or automatically, by leaving the SSID unspecified or blank. A network administrator often uses a public SSID that is set on the access point and broadcast to all wireless devices in range. You can disable the automatic SSID broadcast feature to improve network security. For more detail on Motherboards log on to http://www.thinkdigit.com/ John Wells provides you the best and latest information on spice CDMA Phone and Intel P35 Motherboards . he suggest you log on to http://www.thinkdigit.com
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