Secure your Linksys Router
Next time you use your Wi-Fi router to purchase products online or just chat with your Facebook friends about personal matters, take a few minutes to check your router's security. With wireless networks becoming a commodity nowadays, Wi-Fi hacking tools are just as easy to get and use by your neighbors or by anyone sitting in a car within the range of your router's radio signal. Here’s how to give them a run for their money.
1) Clear settings by pressing and holding the reset button for 10 seconds (with power on)
2) Plug an Ethernet cable into one of the 4 ports on the router
3) Type in 192.168.1.1 in Internet Explorer
4) user name = blank PWD = admin OR user name = admin PWD = admin
5) On the setup tab the only change:
The router name
Local IP address to 192.168.1.2
Time zone is set to correspond to your time zone
Click Save Settings at the bottom of the page.
6) Log into the router through Internet Explorer again, but to the new address:
192.168.1.2 Again with user name = blank PWD = admin OR user name = admin PWD = admin
7) Click on Wireless. Only change:
Wireless Network Name
Wireless Channel change to anything other than 6
Click Save Settings, continue on “Settings are Successful.” Screen
Click Wireless Security. Change:
Security Mode: WPA2 Personal
WPA Algorithms: TKIP
WPA Shared Key: make it long and complicated with number and characters.
Click Save Settings, continue on “Settings are Successful.” Screen
9) Click Administration. Change:
The router password
Wireless Access Web is set to Disable
Click Save Settings. After black and white screen automatically refreshes, you can close Internet Explorer.