Since I moved into this place, I've been mostly content to be on wired ethernet, but I dusted off an old project router I have that runs alternative firmware called Tomato. Alternative firmwares like this or DD-WRT are interesting to mess with and make a regular router almost like an Enterprise Router with more options.
http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato
I turned off the SSID Broadcast so most casual laptop or mobile device users shouldn't even know my device exists or see it in the list of available APs.
I altered my Tomato Router's Subnet Mask to 255.255.255.252 which reduces the allowed connections to only 2 devices which includes my DSL, so any devices past one Wifi device should fail to be assigned an IP Address. The DHCP range was also reduced to the size of the shrunken network.
Also of course using WPA2 with a long password.
For what it's worth, all of my devices also have a VPN.
I suppose I could also White List my allowed devices by MAC Address.
lol just a side project, but I think my stuff is locked down.
http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato
I turned off the SSID Broadcast so most casual laptop or mobile device users shouldn't even know my device exists or see it in the list of available APs.
I altered my Tomato Router's Subnet Mask to 255.255.255.252 which reduces the allowed connections to only 2 devices which includes my DSL, so any devices past one Wifi device should fail to be assigned an IP Address. The DHCP range was also reduced to the size of the shrunken network.
Also of course using WPA2 with a long password.
For what it's worth, all of my devices also have a VPN.
I suppose I could also White List my allowed devices by MAC Address.
lol just a side project, but I think my stuff is locked down.
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