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hello so you think your home network is secure well think again because recently that's report saying that most home browser can be hacked but no worries I'm here to tell you that you should be ok as long as you follow my 5 simple step I'm talking about it and by the way I'm don't look you so you know that so that's not oh by the way all these five-step replies the access to the routers web interface and if you don't know how to get to it make sure you check out my previous video on a subject matter now the first step is that you have to encrypt your Wi-Fi network basically giving it a password so that only you and those you trust can add Wi-Fi devices to your network now this pass would have to meet three criteria it has to be hard to guess but easy to remember and easy to type in on a small screen so think about a convention for example you can eat a straight line on a keyboard such as qwe RT y plus your postal home zip code and that would do you can always throw in more numbers or you a different straight line just you know go with that convention and the second step you need to change the default important informations they are called default because they are public knowledge and everybody knows the two of them need to be chains are the default IP address and the default login password the IP address can be chained to almost anything you want so instead of the default 192.168.1.1 you can make it ten eleven twelve thirteen or fourteen fifty dot sixty dot 69 basically have fun with the numbers note that one the IP has been chained you have to use the new IP address to access the router web interface changing the IP address actually have greatly reduced a chance that your router can be hacked from outside now the router default login password have to be of course hard to guess and different from the Wi-Fi password I talked about earlier third step do not turn on any remote access feature unless you know very well what you're doing these features include FTP or remote management and if you do turn them on make sure you put on restriction you secure HTTP or you a non-conventional now the four step make sure you upgrade the routers to the latest firmware this can be as easy as a few clicks or maybe you have to download the firmware and do that manually you should do that at least one when you first set up the home network remember do not do anything during the upgrading process because if you turn around off during the upgrading process you can actually brick your home router and the last step is that make sure you lock off the web interface when you are done for some routers this mean it just closed the web interface or one more thing if you use a powerline adapters for your home network make sure you turn on the security feature on all of them and that's it it should be okay now but if you're not that you've got to be a really bad or a really important person and in that case you need a professional to take care of your network for you and speaking of professional if you are a bad person and want to be good call me I'll write you up and that's because I am don't know and this has been a quick guide on how to keep your home network secure