I am specifically looking for security systems for my home, not my computer.
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What is the best wireless security system that is connected to the Internet?microsoft office
If you google wireless router comparisons you will find lots and lots to wade through.
For my own ideas:
Unless you have need of a longer-range router, don't get one of the newer ones with longer range. (The longer the range, the greater the opportunity for others to find and use it.)
You want to be able to do/use the following:
-deliver hardware firewall (NAT), which will not respond to port-focused pings or inquiries from outside your network (operates in stealth mode)
-turn off the broadcast of the ID (each one comes with a factory installed default, e.g., linksys for Linksys routers)
-change that name, to name the now-not-broadcast ID to something meaningful to you
-MAC filtered (allow access only to those machines for which you have entered the MAC ID)
-WPA-level encryption
Sniffers (think police scanners for wireless frequencies) can detect and intercept the radio traffic between computers and routers. In principle, they can be used to identify the network name and forge a MAC to allow access. That is why encryption is essential, and for security, WPA is the tops available (I think). WEP encryption can be broken in a matter of seconds-to-minutes.
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