How can I harden my router?

I was curious how I could harden my router to make sure in addition to strong passwords and the following obvious things:

WPA2 wireless enabled, etc..

Any ideas? I noticed that you can't disable the SSID on my ea6500. What a shame.

Thank you!

If you have devices that are not compatible with WPA2, then you can simply use WPA2/WPA mixed. As I said, nobody has ever cracked a greater than 10 characters strong WPA password. And no one has ever cracked a password strong wpa2 to my knowledge. It seems I read somewhere, from a reliable source, that should be a neighbour dedicated with $20,000 worth of equipment operating around the clock 24-7 years for breaking a 12 character WPA tkip password.

You'll be fine with 14 characters WPA2/WPA mode mixed strong password if some of your devices only supports WPA2.

Use @ or $ or & in a few places.

I uncheck multicast filter box, but unless you do Conference calls at home, she will probably be important.

VPN, I let pass by active.

The biggest threat to security is no neighbours, in my opinion. The biggest threat to security is to have unknowingly a kit root on your computer. A root kit can hide in silence and eventually get passwords of bank account or other sensitive information.

For this, you can use a USB and bootable. Or some software anti root kit does not require a bootable USB Flash DRIVE or a cd. I just use Microsoft security for main antivirus databases and various other software anti root kit, and have no problem. But I removed a lot of kits root, friends, family and neighbors.

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