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Is It Safe To Do Online Banking With A Hotel Wireless Router?

August 12, 2010

Answer: No Most hotel wireless routers are not encrypted nor do they have mac address restrictions. This is not by oversight, it is to make getting online convenient for hotel guest. This leaves you vulnerable in two ways. When your computer sends the information from your computer to the wireless router it travels in text [...]

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Secure Your Router In Two Different Ways

August 12, 2010

There are two ways to secure your router. One is encryption and the other is MAC access. These functions protect you in two different ways. Encryption scrambles what you are sending through the air waves while MAC access limits the computers that are allowed to talk to it wirelessly. It is best to use both [...]

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