How to Secure Your Wireless Network on HiPER 510W

 

Overview

This document describes how to secure your wireless network on HiPER 510W. Securing a wireless network is very important because if you don’t, other people such as neighbors can connect to your HiPER 510W to access the Internet, slowing down your Internet connection. Even worse, hackers can easily intercept the data you send and receive, or access files saved on your computer.

 

Login to the Web UI of the HiPER 510W, and then follow these steps to secure your wireless network and prevent unauthorized access.

 

Change the Default Administrator Password

Go to the Administration > Administrator page, click Admin hyperlink to open the setup page to change the default administrator password. This will prevent other users from accessing your HiPER 510W using common username and password combination.

 

 

Enable Wireless Encryption

Go to the Wireless > Security page to configure wireless security settings. The HiPER 510W provides multiple security modes: WEP, WPA/WPA2, and WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK. WEP is the least secure mode, but is compatible with a wide range of devices including older hardware, whereas WPA2 is the most secure but isn’t compatible with some older hardware. If you have older devices that don’t supports WPA2, choose WAP or WEP, otherwise go with WPA2.

 

Note: Please use really complex passwords for your wireless encryption or router access passwords. Besides, to keep strong passwords effective, change them often.

 

1.Enable Wireless MAC Address Filtering

2.Go to the Wireless > MAC Filtering page, click the Add button below the list to open the MAC Address Filtering Settings page, and then enter a MAC address that is allowed to access, lastly click the Save button to add it to the MAC Address Filtering List. Continue to add other MAC addresses that are allowed to access, one by one.

 

Please check that all the MAC addresses you entered are correct.

 

After that, select the Enable MAC Address Filtering check box, and choose Allow as Filtering Mode. Then it will allow the wireless clients with the MAC addresses listed in the MAC Address Filtering List to connect to the HiPER 510W, but block all other wireless clients.

 

If you need to add many MAC addresses, manually adding them one by one is time consuming and less accurate. Fortunately, the HiPER 510W provides a much faster and more effective method to add them. The operation is as follows: Go to the Wireless > Client List page, select one Filtered check box to add the corresponding MAC Address into the MAC Address Filtering List; or directly click the Filter All button to add all the listed MAC addresses into the MAC Address Filtering List, except those already added.

 

Change the Default SSID and Disable SSID Broadcast

 

You can change the default SSID to make it more difficult for hackers to find. Do not choose the name easy to guess or find on the Internet. By default, the HiPER 510W periodically broadcasts its SSID, so that wireless clients can automatically find it to connect to the HiPER 510W and join the wireless network identified by the SSID. However, this feature also makes it easier for hackers to know your SSID and break into your WLAN. If you don’t have guest users, you can disable this feature for better security.

 

The operation is as follows: Go to the Wireless > Basic page to change the default SSID, clear the Enable SSID Broadcast check box, and then click the Save button.

 

 

Note: If you disable SSID Broadcast on the HiPER 510W, you need to manually configure the right SSID for your wireless clients, see the following two figures (here we take Windows 7 for example).

 

 

Conclusion

According to your network environment, you can use some of the methods describes above to secure your wireless network and prevent unauthorized access.