Need Wifi Security. Please Help Me!

[Prakhar Kumar Goel]

Hi friends,

hope you are in the best of your healths.

Here it goes- I have a desktop and a laptop sharing a common internet.
The desktop is "wired" to router and laptop is connected via "wifi" to
same router.

I also share files and data between the 2 computers over LAN (not
internet). And I have allowed root sharing of the drives in both
computer.

Its working fine. The problem is, the people next door are smart. So I
want adequate security measures to prevent misuse of my internet
connection and access to my files and data on both computer to
outsiders.

Measures already take:
1) I have enabled WPA2 only wireless security to router, given a
strong password
2) changed the default username and password of the router, to a very
strong one.


What more can I do to secure my files and data while sharing
internally between the 2 systems and also from the internet.

 

[Luan Pham]

Its working fine. The problem is, the people next door are smart. So I
want adequate security measures to prevent misuse of my internet
connection and access to my files and data on both computer to
outsiders.

Measures already take:
1) I have enabled WPA2 only wireless security to router, given a
strong password
2) changed the default username and password of the router, to a very
strong one.


What more can I do to secure my files and data while sharing
internally between the 2 systems and also from the internet.

Try enable MAC address allow. This just allow only machine with known
MAC address to connect. That is the best way to secure your wifi
connection.

 

[Leythos]

Try enable MAC address allow. This just allow only machine with known
MAC address to connect. That is the best way to secure your wifi
connection.

MAC filtering is almost useless when trying to prevent actual hacking.

 

[John Wunderlich]

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Hi friends,

hope you are in the best of your healths.

Here it goes- I have a desktop and a laptop sharing a common
internet. The desktop is "wired" to router and laptop is connected
via "wifi" to same router.

I also share files and data between the 2 computers over LAN (not
internet). And I have allowed root sharing of the drives in both
computer.

Its working fine. The problem is, the people next door are smart.
So I want adequate security measures to prevent misuse of my
internet connection and access to my files and data on both
computer to outsiders.

Measures already take:
1) I have enabled WPA2 only wireless security to router, given a
strong password
2) changed the default username and password of the router, to a
very strong one.


What more can I do to secure my files and data while sharing
internally between the 2 systems and also from the internet.

Wireless network-wise, you're probably in good shape.

Assuming both of your machines are XP-Pro, another step you can take
is to disable Simple File Sharing and put the same login
username/password on both machines and set file security to only
allow access to known usernames. Also make sure you put a password
on the local administrator account.

HTH,
John

 

[Jim]

Hi friends,

hope you are in the best of your healths.

Here it goes- I have a desktop and a laptop sharing a common internet.
The desktop is "wired" to router and laptop is connected via "wifi" to
same router.

I also share files and data between the 2 computers over LAN (not
internet). And I have allowed root sharing of the drives in both
computer.

Its working fine. The problem is, the people next door are smart. So I
want adequate security measures to prevent misuse of my internet
connection and access to my files and data on both computer to
outsiders.

Measures already take:
1) I have enabled WPA2 only wireless security to router, given a
strong password
2) changed the default username and password of the router, to a very
strong one.


What more can I do to secure my files and data while sharing
internally between the 2 systems and also from the internet.

So long as they don`t know the username/password , "shouldn`t" be a
problem .

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Hi friends,

hope you are in the best of your healths.

Here it goes- I have a desktop and a laptop sharing a common internet.
The desktop is "wired" to router and laptop is connected via "wifi" to
same router.

I also share files and data between the 2 computers over LAN (not
internet). And I have allowed root sharing of the drives in both
computer.

Its working fine. The problem is, the people next door are smart. So I
want adequate security measures to prevent misuse of my internet
connection and access to my files and data on both computer to
outsiders.

Measures already take:
1) I have enabled WPA2 only wireless security to router, given a
strong password
2) changed the default username and password of the router, to a very
strong one.


What more can I do to secure my files and data while sharing
internally between the 2 systems and also from the internet.

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Change all the passwords regularly.

 

[Leonard Grey]

To add to Patrick's good advice: The way to ensure that your wireless
connection is uncrackable is to use WPA2-AES and a strong password.
It's very important to use a strong password.

A strong password is completely random. It is not guessable, not a word
in any dictionary and not a mangled dictionary word, like h8l1o. Your
password should be at least 8 characters long, although WPA2 allows up
to 64 characters. You can find password generators on the internet. Here
is one example:

https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

Another advantage to using a long, strong password is that it's less
susceptible to social engineering. Fewer people can be tricked into
giving away a password they can't possibly memorize.

 

[Rick]

To add to Patrick's good advice: The way to ensure that your wireless
connection is uncrackable is to use WPA2-AES and a strong password. It's
very important to use a strong password.

A strong password is completely random. It is not guessable, not a word
in any dictionary and not a mangled dictionary word, like h8l1o. Your
password should be at least 8 characters long, although WPA2 allows up
to 64 characters. You can find password generators on the internet. Here
is one example:

https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

Another advantage to using a long, strong password is that it's less
susceptible to social engineering. Fewer people can be tricked into
giving away a password they can't possibly memorize.

There is a tool that was available called quick password generator--very
useful if you have a secure place to store said password--Steve's site
looks great too.