Comments on: 7 Important Features Your Wireless Router Has And You Should Be Using

By: Clark

Clark — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:08:32 +0000

WHY do so many ppl waste our time with useless comments like the one above?!!! I do NOT need to read that you loved this article, or that you need to update something. I mean, REALLY. And ppllleeaaase people, use some punctuation. Run on sentences are confusing and just plain lazy. I can hardly decode the meaning intended by many of these jumbled up collections of words.

By: Bulilit Toralballa

Bulilit Toralballa — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:09:16 +0000

Thanks for this!

By: raga16

raga16 — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:22:19 +0000

One can disable SSID broadcast and manually configure the right SSID on the WiFi devices.

By: Oron

Oron — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:51:30 +0000

OK, I stand corrected!

By: Nikhil Pandey

Nikhil Pandey — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 03:01:13 +0000

I have used all of them except QoS. I will try it today :D

By: Millie

Millie — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:54:17 +0000

That would be… uh… incorrect.

Getting a list of MAC addresses for a WAP, regardless of encryption, is really easy, and only involves sniffing.

You don’t need a promiscuous card to get that list, or even to inject disconnect packets, though it makes the latter faster.

By: Millie

Millie — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:50:54 +0000

Implying MAC filtering will help you at all if you are being targetted?

I was half expecting to see you advocating WPS after I read that.

By: Alex Perkins

Alex Perkins — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:09:17 +0000

Nice article! Some routers have USB ports on the back that can be used with a USB stick as NAS, ghetto but cheap.

By: dragonmouth

dragonmouth — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:45:37 +0000

Tomato is even better. Problem is that it is not being regularly maintained.

By: Ray Randall

Ray Randall — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:58:27 +0000

need to update my router so i can use the guest feature

By: john philip lucero

john philip lucero — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:55:23 +0000

DD-WRT firmware is very nice software.. Why the manufacturers of router didn’t include it as options in their package.

By: Joel Lee

Joel Lee — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:48:15 +0000

FIOS routers default to WEP? That’s terrible. I wonder how many vulnerable households there are out there… yikes!

By: Joel Lee

Joel Lee — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:47:44 +0000

Wi-Fi can be a pain when you need a stable, persistent connection. As a fellow MMO player, I can relate. Wired is the way to go!

By: Victor Hurtado

Victor Hurtado — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:53:26 +0000

I always change the default device name, router password, and change the encryption type. Verizon’s FIOS routers are always setup with WEP encryption.

By: Marc Chabot

Marc Chabot — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:37:54 +0000

I will add that it may also be an idea to change the default device name as well as the default Admin password. No sense giving casual would-be hackers any more information than absolutely necessary! By changing both, you make it more difficult so why not, right?