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I have a few doubts about setting up my wireless router.
I have a few doubts about setting up my wireless router.
1. Can someone actually steal internet signal from my wireless router w/o having the password?
2. How would I know if someone is stealing signal
3. Which one is more secure WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK (I have no idea)
*Thanks for all of your answers in advance.
Tags: Wpa Psk
1. No.
2. Look on the router and see if any connected devices aren’t owned by you.
3. WPA2.
Nothing that really matters to you. Your router should emit both signals at the same time. It depends on the device you are using.
1. No
2. If you noticed a drop in bandwidth or browsing/downloading speed you could then query in connections.
3. wpa2 is more secure as it is a newer more refined version of wpa i have added a link with regard to all the information you should need
1. No
2. Check for activity when nobody connected.
3. WPA2
WPA2 is more secure because it uses a new encryption standard (AES) used by the US goverment.
WPA (TKIP) has a small flaw that a password can be unencryted from packets of data. This is only a problem if a weak passkey is used.
Yes, it is possible to steal someones Wi-Fi signal without the password but I don’t think that you have to worry about that. You should only be a little more concerned if you feel that someone will park themselves outside your house and crack into your Internet connection or if you have a geek that lives next door.
To answer your security question. You have 2 main types of wireless encryption. WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) & WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) WPA is more secure than WEP. WPA uses encryption such as AES & TKIP both 128 bit encryption algorithms. WPA2 is the newest and most secure form of wireless encryption. The number of bits tells you how much encryption you have. Essentially more bits would mean that your network will be harder to break. On the flip side the more encyrption that you have the slower your network traffic will be. Then once you have decided what type of secuirty it is that you want (WEP, WPA or WPA2 ) then you can choose the type of authentication. Open (Not Secure), Shared (Semi-Secure) & PSK (Pre-Shared Key) which is a password that you will give to your users, this is the maximum amount of security that you can place on your wireless network.
So to answer you question quickly, WPA2-PSK would be the most difficult to crack.
I would take some time and read up on it. It is good information to know. I presonally use WPA-PSK with a 64-bit (10 digit encryption key) 64-bit or 10 digit password is all that you really need in a home. 128-bit passwords would be 21 digits long. You can have this in normal letter/numbers (ASCII) or (Hex)
Take a look at these links, they will provide you with a little more information.
Hope that this was able to answer your question.
Regards,
Max