Since this is our Final blog im going to discuss wireless security. Your current network is probably WEP encryption or not at all. WEP encryption is no longer safe because anyone with a knowledge of computers can download a program that allows them to hack your WEP code and then access the network. Since WEP is so easy to UN-encrypt you should use a higher level encryption.
My Home network is a TIK encryption and my password is a 32 character case sensitive including letters numbers and symbols. I have a program that test how strong your password and level of encryption is and I ran this program on my home network and in order for this program to hack my password it would have taken over 1000 years. That’s pretty good and I have run this program on WEP networks and I have received passwords to these networks in less than an hour.
So for a home network that may not be the fastest it is a must to have a higher level encryption to keep unwanted users off the network. This will in the long run keep your network a little bit faster because there won’t be unwanted users slowing you down. Without other people on the network you will be able to use all of your bandwidth. You don’t have to use TIK which is one of the highest level of encryption use WPK or any other levels of encryption that are higher than WEP.
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