Securing Home Wireless

Some quick tips on securing your home wireless network:

1. For a start, please change the default password.
   
2. Since it's your own home wireless and you should know the SSID, then go ahead and disable the broadcasting of SSID. For those model which do not have this feature, no fret, just continue on.
   
3. Now time to pick the encryption mode. Older generation of wireless box, or well at least for my SMC Barricade wireless router, may support only WEP mode - 64 bits and 128 bits. As of current, a lot more encryption mode are available such as WPA, WPA2, Tkip etc...Anyway, WPA should be more than sufficient, just make sure you pick a strong passphase.
4. For more advanced user, make use of MAC filtering for access control.
5. It's your home wireless, so there is no use for remote administration, just disable it.

Wireless Surveying - Search for a survey tool

I have done a number of wireless surveys mainly using one or more access points to determine real coverage and interference levels. Though on field results are of course more accurate, I'm still in search of tools that can over lay a building map are much more useful in planning a new wireless installation.