Tips To Secure Your Home Wi-Fi

Tech tricks that’ll ensure you aren’t leaving yourself prone to attack

Nowadays, just about everyone has a broadband connection, and in a residential setup, it’s the job of a wireless router to facilitate that connection. The router may connect to a separate modem, or optical network terminal if you’re fortunate enough to have a fibre-optic connection, and routes traffic to client devices that are requesting data, such as a web page or a video stream.

With gigabytes of data passing through a router every day, it’s wise to invest some effort in making sure your router is as secure as possible. Otherwise, you could be in danger of folks logging on to your network wirelessly and stealing bandwidth, commonly known as ‘poaching Wi-Fi’ or ‘Wi-Fi squatting’.

That would leave you with less bandwidth to work with, and in the worst case, malicious parties might use your connection for illegal downloads that are then attributed to you. So, before that happens, check out these recommendations to better secure your home network.

How to Tighten Wi-Fi security

1 Set a network password…