Wireless security help needed
 

I went from having a bog-standard belkin wired router to a DIR-615 with dd-wrt on it. Now the plan was to stick with it being wired but we have decided to go wireless and I haven't a clue what I am doing :rolleyes:

Would anyone be willing to guide me in setting up the security on it please?

I have these options and I am not sure what to pick:-

WPA Personal
WPA Enterprise
WPA2 Personal
WPA2 Enterprise
WPA2 Personal Mixed
WPA2 Enterprise Mixed
RADIUS
WEP

TKIP
AES
TKIP+AES


Any help to make it a secured network would be appreciated since I am in way over my head

Re: Wireless security help needed
 

Until those wot are clever can help a bit more than me:) here is something I found to read

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Thank you I will go read it now :)

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WPA2-Personal

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Cheers :)

Finally managed to get this done after a lot of trial and error and googling. Could a mod lock or delete this topic please :)

Re: Wireless security help needed
 

Don't forget to make sure you have a decent password (better still a pass 'phrase') for the WPA. Pick something long, that you can remember and type easily, or slightly shorter that's 'complex' (upper case, lower case, special characters, numbers, etc) - if you can do something long AND complex that's even better :D

Change the default admin username and password.

Change the SSID (the name the router broadcasts as your wireless access point name) to something that a) doesn't identify the type/make of router or the firmware it's running, b) doesn't relate to you individually or as a family, and c) doesn't relate to your address.

Don't worry about 'MAC Filtering' as it's s easy to get around that it adds nothing really but some extra messing about for anything that you want to connect. Also I wouldn't bother hiding the SSID as it's so trivial to identify hidden SSIDs that that's also not worth bothering with.

Beyond that you should be good to go :)

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Thank you Raistlin

I only missed the final two so it looks like I didn't do too bad :)

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