You will like this home office wifi myth buster in addition to a really great article from Tom’s Guide about fine tuning the settings usually left open on ‘consumer grade’ wifi routers that need attention!
Firstly, when accessing your wifi router, either plug in your computer directly (i.e. not over wifi) or use an anonymous browser window. The other settings that need attention are,
| Items | Features | Securing |
| 1 | In browser go to /HNAP1/ | Ought to be unreachable, router is unsecured |
| 2 | UPnP | Disable it |
| 3 | WPS | Disable it |
| 4 | Admin Login | Change password and login |
| 5 | SSID | Change it to your own, don’t give away your location |
| 6 | WPA2 Encryption | Enable it |
| 7 | Wi-Fi Protected Setup | Disable it |
| 8 | Cloud-based router management, “mesh” | Disable it |
| 9 | Update firmware | |
| 10 | 5-GHz band over 2-GHz band | |
| 11 | Remote administrative access | Disable it |
| 12 | Administrative access over Wi-Fi | Disable it |
| 13 | Settings for the administrative Web interface | HTTPS:// |
| 14 | Use a browser’s incognito or private mode | |
| 15 | PING, Telnet, SSH, UPnP and HNAP | Disable it |
The entire article at Tom’s Guide is here https://www.tomsguide.com/us/home-router-security,news-19245.html and it has some other settings I myself did not try.
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