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Disabling SSID broadcasts is pointless and just makes some client-side WiFi features worse. The real advice is: 1. Don’t trust your ISP supplied router, repla
by tristor 2y ago
Disabling SSID broadcasts is pointless and just makes some client-side WiFi features worse.
The real advice is:
1. Don’t trust your ISP supplied router, replace it with a modem only CPE or figure out how to operate it in bridge mode. Then buy your own router you fully control.
2. Don’t buy a router made by a Chinese company. Preference routers that run or can run well maintained open source network OS like OpenWRT, Vyatta, pfsense, and similar.
3. Change all the default passwords and set good ACLs and other traffic policies.
4. Install updates regularly.
5. Make intelligent use of VLANs.
- nerdponx 2y ago> Make intelligent use of VLANs. What does this mean?
- tristor 2y agoYou can separate different types of devices on different VLANs. As an example I keep my home lab, general use (phones, laptops), work, and IOT (cameras, thermostat) on separate VLANs from one another. They all get access to the Internet, but are segmented from one another with different policies applied.