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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 97327" data-source="post: 1040685">Some easy tips to make life a little harder for local network sniffers1. Never login to the admin console of your router using WIFI2. Use a long passphrase (at least 20 characters), change it when you think someone else is on your network3. When your router has a wireless schedule (of parental control) simply disable Wifi at night&nbsp; &nbsp; This reduces the time window for brute force attacks (I have disabled from 02.00 to 06.00)4. Look for reboot schedule in your browser, set it do a daily reboot somewhere in the timeframe the Wifi is down,&nbsp; &nbsp; I have set it at three 3.00 at night to reboot the router on a daily basis. This will always allow me to get in when needed.5. Look for network partitioning or AP Isolation, when enabled it prevents to accessing resources of someone else in the network6. Look for firewall and enable the firewall, when it got an option for SPI and/or DPI enable itMost Android phones spoof their MAC-address, so when you want to allow every device individually, you will be quite busy when people use Android devices in your home. AVG free and AVAST free have network inspector module, which warns you when someone logs into a guarded network.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 97327, post: 1040685"] Some easy tips to make life a little harder for local network sniffers 1. Never login to the admin console of your router using WIFI 2. Use a long passphrase (at least 20 characters), change it when you think someone else is on your network 3. When your router has a wireless schedule (of parental control) simply disable Wifi at night This reduces the time window for brute force attacks (I have disabled from 02.00 to 06.00) 4. Look for reboot schedule in your browser, set it do a daily reboot somewhere in the timeframe the Wifi is down, I have set it at three 3.00 at night to reboot the router on a daily basis. This will always allow me to get in when needed. 5. Look for network partitioning or AP Isolation, when enabled it prevents to accessing resources of someone else in the network 6. Look for firewall and enable the firewall, when it got an option for SPI and/or DPI enable it Most Android phones spoof their MAC-address, so when you want to allow every device individually, you will be quite busy when people use Android devices in your home. AVG free and AVAST free have network inspector module, which warns you when someone logs into a guarded network. [/QUOTE]

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