Why is it important to secure your wireless network? All unsecured wireless networks can allow hackers to spy on your online activities. Not only can they see what you are doing hackers could also gain full access to your computers hard drive. Even someone who is not a hacker and is just using your wireless to get on the Internet can cause you trouble. If they perform an illegal act on your wireless network it can get traced back to your computer.
There are some basics steps to help you secure your wireless network. The first step is to use and encryption, which is the process of transforming information using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone except those processing it. The second step is to make sure you don’t announce yourself. This means to not broadcast yourself on your Wi-Fi's identifier broadcasting. You already know that you have Wi-Fi so there is no need to use this. If you do your only helping hackers find your wireless network. The last step is to limit access to your access point. This means to limit what computers are allowed to use your wireless network usually by only letting computers with certain MAC addresses to use it. 
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