Home Wireless Network Setup

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How to setup your home wireless network to be relatively secure/best practices

Steps

on your router, change the administrator's password from the out-of-the-box default

under the Wireless settings, enable MAC address filtering

enable some sort of wireless encryption (WEP, or preferably WPA or WPA2)

Disable SSID broadcast

change the name of your wireless network so it does not include your name