Securing your router is essential so that you can enjoy a good internet connection, and the reason is very simple, this device is the right one acts as a link between your PC, smartphone, or your console and the servers of the game you’re enjoying, the website you’re viewing, or the movie you’re streaming.

If the router fails, everything will fail. It doesn’t matter if you have a very powerful computer or a high-end device, you will not be able to connect to the internet, and this is for many digital natives almost like a “return to the Stone Age”. If you do not care about the security of your router, you may end up exposed to attacks or intrusions that will partially or completely deactivate it and consume the full bandwidth of your connection without the slightest discretion.

Let’s be honest, none of us like that our internet connection doesn’t work, let alone intruders use the service we pay for. This experience can be frustrating And I’m telling you this because, as those of you who read us regularly remember, this is a problem I experienced a few years ago. For this reason, I will be happy to share with you tips on how to improve router security, and this time I will focus on three that are Very simple but also very effective.

1.-Improve the security of your router by changing the Wi-Fi password

Main entrance door there is a Wi-Fi network to our router. This type of connection has a considerable reach, and it can that a neighbor or even a person who is on the streetnear our home, you can try to slip into our network if it seems available.

When do these types of attacks occur? There are usually three different situations:

• Launch a brute force attack entering random passwordsor the most used by most users.
• Let him try to associate the network name with something that might help him figure out the password. This is more common than it seems because many users customize the network name and provide personal datasomething we should avoid.
• Be familiar person and that he can play with what he knows about us to try to slip into our network with less effort.

If our password is not strong enough, we will eventually have intruder in our network, or even more than one, and the security of your router crashes. To prevent this, we recommend that you change the default password that came with your router and use a more secure password that contains at least 16 characters combining letters, numbers, uppercase and lowercase letters, and special symbols.

we can change that access to the interface of our router (enter “http://192.168.0.1/ or http://192.168.1.1/” in the browser bar), via the “WLAN” section. Remember that you will have a password for the 2.4 GHz band and another for the 5 GHz band.

2.-Improve the security of your router by disabling the SSID

We have already told you about the SSID in the previous section, albeit with the peculiarity that we marked it as the network name. If you have a public SSID, the name of your Wi-Fi network (s) will appear to anyone to use devices to search for nearby networks. This means that you only need to enter the password to connect and you can start.

Hiding the network name (SSID) allows us to add a layer of security to our router because Wi-Fi networks will no longer appear directly when searching. This means that in order for someone to sneak into our Wi-Fi network, you must know the password and the network name. If we use the password we gave you earlier and hide the network name, it’s very unlikely that we’ll find an intruder on our Wi-Fi.

To hide the network name, just enter the interface of our router according to the steps we provided you earlier. We will go to the section dedicated to WLAN and as soon as we deactivate the corresponding option there, which can be marked in various ways, but can be easily identified because it is or is not associated with an SSID broadcast. We can turn it around at any time.

3.-Improve the security of your router with a guest network

Let’s be honest, quoting our Wi-Fi network is not a good idea. If we have guests at home with a certain frequency, or if we have a small business and we offer our clients free Wi-Fi, give them a password may result in a security risk our router and our internet connection.

I know many cases of individuals and experts who have had problems with this issue. This can be solved by changing the password every day, but if the connection we use is the same for everything, our home and business and our friends, family or clients, in the end the suffering will have to reconnect all devices every day for these password changes.

Creating a guest network is an ideal solution in this case, as we will be able to share our Wi-Fi connection in a limited and secure way with an additional network that will operate independently and have your own network name and your own password. To create a guest network, simply re-enter your router’s interface and find the appropriate section (usually in the Wi-Fi section).

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