Linksys WAG200G Manual

The Linksys WAG200G Wireless-G ADSL Home Gateway. The gateway allows you to access the Internet through a wireless connection or through one of its four switched ports. You can also use the gateway to share resources, including computers. A variety of security features helps protect your data and your privacy while you're online. Safety features include security WPA2, a SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) firewall, and NAT technology. Configure the gateway is easy with the browser-based utility. Wireless networks are convenient and easy to install, which houses with high-speed Internet access are adopting at a rapid pace. Because the wireless network operates by sending information via radio waves, you can be more vulnerable to intruders than a traditional wired network. Like their cellular or wireless phone signals, signals of your wireless network can also be intercepted. Since no you can physically prevent that someone connects to your wireless network, you must take some extra steps to keep your network safe.

Wireless devices have a default wireless network name or SSID (Service Set Identifier) established by the factory. This is the name of your wireless network and you can have up to 32 characters in length. Linksys Wireless products use Linksys as the default wireless network name. You must change your wireless network name to something unique to distinguish your wireless network from other wireless networks that may exist to her around, but do not use personal information (such as your Social Security number) because this information may be available so anyone can see when browsing for wireless networks. For wireless products such as access points, routers, and gateways, you will be asked a password when you want to change your settings. These devices have a default password set by the factory. The Linksys default password is an admin. Hackers know these defaults and may try to use them to gain access to your wireless device and change the network settings. To prevent any unauthorized change, personalize the password of the device so that it is difficult to guess.

Routers and gateways of Linksys allow you to enable addresses Media Access Control (MAC) filtering. The MAC address is a unique series of numbers and letters assigned to every network device. With the address filtering enabled MAC, wireless network access is provided only for wireless devices with specific MAC addresses. For example, you can specify the MAC address of each computer in your home so that only computers can access your wireless network. Encryption protects data transmitted over a wireless network. The Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA / WPA2) and Wired Equivalency Privacy (WEP) offer different levels of security for wireless communication. A network encrypted with WPA2 / WPA is more secure than a network encrypted with WEP because WPA2 / WPA uses dynamic key encryption. To protect the information as it passes through the waves, you must enable the highest level of encryption compatible with your network equipment.

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