Practical tips, how-to guides, and field notes on Wi-Fi, mesh networks, and home network security — from someone who has spent 20+ years in IT.
The question comes up regularly, and I want to give you a straight answer rather than the usual paranoid “never use public Wi-Fi for anything” advice, which isn’t realistic, or the breezy “it’s fine, HTTPS protects…
Read article →There’s a list online — publicly available, regularly updated — that contains the factory default usernames and passwords for hundreds of router models. Admin/admin. Admin/password. User/1234. The specific defaults for Netgear, TP-Link, Linksys, Asus, and dozens…
Read article →Here’s something most people never think about: right now, while you’re reading this, there may be devices on your home Wi-Fi that you didn’t put there. Most of the time, that mystery device is just a…
Read article →When guests visit, giving them your main Wi-Fi password is a security risk — even if you trust them. A guest network isolates visitor devices from your personal computers, smart home devices, and NAS drives while…
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