how do i protect my wireless internet connection?
Depending on the age of your wireless access point, it will support some form of encryption. WEP is supported by pretty much all equipment. WPA encryption is newer and more secure, but you may encounter some equipment that does not support it. Your first step in securing your wireless access is to set up encryption for your access point. Disable your SID broadcast. This will make it harder for someone sniffing for a wireless network to identify yours. MAC address filtering. You can probably configure your access point so it will only allow connections from specific MAC addresses. (A MAC address is a unique address assigned to each of the network adapters that you have in your computer. The address is assigned by the manufacturer. You can view the MAC address of your network adapters by opening a command prompt and running the command IPCONFIG /ALL . The string of characters listed as the physical address is the MAC address. Once you identify the MAC address of your wireless adapter in
