Home Hub Security

Friend of mine has just gone BT option 3 and is getting a wireless hub mainly because her son just got a PS3. When she gets it what does she need to do to secure it. Apparently her son's PS3 already found 3 unsecured wireless networks in the flats she lives.

I have no idea how wireless works so can anyone talk me through it to relay to her?

Cheers in advance.

It will arive with security enabled and she will be provided with the WPA key she will require to connect.

Basically she sets a shared secret (passphrase) on the router and devices which are permitted to communicate. The shared secret is used to encrypt/decrypt the wireless data. Two flavours are common - WEP and WPA1/2. WEP is crackable so preferably use WPA.

The details of setting up are router and O/S specific (but quite straightforward as these are consumer devices).

Thanks all.

In reply to a post by Banger:

Friend of mine has just gone BT option 3 and is getting a wireless hub mainly because her son just got a PS3. When she gets it what does she need to do to secure it. Apparently her son's PS3 already found 3 unsecured wireless networks in the flats she lives.

I have no idea how wireless works so can anyone talk me through it to relay to her?

Cheers in advance.

Hi, info on these websites will help you configure the BT Home Hub�

http://bt.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/bt.cfg/php/enduser/cc...

http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/homehub.html

http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forw...

http://www.portforward.com/networking/staticip.htm

http://www.portforward.com/guides.htm