How to make my wireless broadband more secure

bigdog

Hi,
I recently got eircom broadband installed(wireless router) WPA enabled.
I want to make my wireless more secure,how and what should i do?
I have heard that possible hackers can get router key of my network and use my broadband.

Can i enter my mac address details into the router and it would only allow my laptop use the wireless connection?

Pls help thanks.

kaimera

yes, you can make it mac only.

mac addys can be spoofed tho.

WPA wifi encryption + a long key

bigdog

I already have WPA + a key.
Could i change the name and use my own generated key/password and how would i do this?

thanks

kaimera

the name of what?

your SSID?

should be able to; somewhere under the wireless config settings.

what router do you have?

bigdog

yes my SSID, could i then use my own password?
it's a netopia router.

kaimera

ya, like i said it should be somewhere in the wifi settings on the router config to change the ssid and also let you choose yer own wpa key.

dont have a netopia router with me but iirc it's easy enough to do.