Another Day With My PC

With the advent of notebooks and other electronic gadgets that could access the Internet, teleporting oneself through a lone DSL cable in your home is anything but practical anymore. With mobile phones and digital cameras now being able to get the user online, chances are is that every member of the family will be needing broadband access.

Having more than one DSL subscription would be impractical. The solution to this dilemma is a wireless router. However, a major drawback to wireless Internet is security. For those who already have one at home, you may want to reconfigure or upgrade your router’s security settings in order to ward off potential attacks or intrusions in your network.

Many wireless router users are still using Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) in securing their networks. However, this has already been breached and branded by security experts as outdated. The one that should be used today is WPA or Wi-Fi Protected Access. If you’re planning on setting up a wireless network in your place, make sure that the necessary update has already been installed in the component that you’re going to buy. This would save you from being infected by various forms of malware that hackers are introducing on the Internet and even on local networks.