5 Killer Ways To Make TP-LINK Router Unhackable.

If you are here, then you may be one of them who uses TP-LINK router in their LAN or an internet surfer who is in search of making their wireless connection secure. Or, you may have been troubled by your neighbor for stealing your Wi-Fi password. You are in the right place! here you will find some of the killer tricks on protecting your TP-LINK router from being hacked. This is the most popular router so far and most vulnerable from being hacked too (only if some of the precautions are not taken). Many people use this router and don't know how to protect their Wi-Fi from being hacked. Here you will know how to make your Wi-Fi connection secure as well because protecting your router from being hacked means to protect your wireless network too. 

Firstly, I want to briefly describe about what we are going to do to our router today. In this tutorial, first we will learn about how to make strong password and then we will learn something about WPS. After this I will teach you how to unable any other device from using your Wi-Fi using MAC filter in the WLAN connection. I will also teach you to make your Wi-Fi network invisible. You will be learning to change the username and password for logging to the router's webpage. Please do not worry if you find some new terms in above sentences because in the coming lines you will be dealing with them in detail. So, let's start our tutorial from the very beginning. 

Step 1: Create A Strong Password For Your WLAN

Creating a strong password for your wireless connection is easy and simple method to protect your router from being hacked. But there are some people who neglect this method and finally fall in trouble. I hope this type of thing won't happen with you. To create a strong password, you need to keep following things in your mind:

• Avoid using the names and other words that could be guessed easily.
• Do not use less than 8 characters and don't use more characters too, it will be difficult to remember.
• The password must not be related to the username in any way, usually people enter the characters related to your SSID. Like, adding numbers in them.
• Try not to repeat the characters in your password and make habit of using unique and special characters.

Now, let me give you an example of strong password. 

First think of a statement which you can easily remember like, "My cow kali gives 5 liter milk daily". Let's convert it into a strong password like "McKg5LmD".

Here I have used the first letter of each word in the statement in alternating case.

Now it's time for applying it in our router.

1. Go to your browser and type "192.168.1.1" in the address bar. 
2. Some thing like this appears. The default username and password is 'admin' for both of them.

Now follow, the information in the pictures below.

Make sure that the encryption type is set to "TKIP/AES" and you have used the strong password as I have said in the text box below that. 

Step 2: Turn Your WPS Connection Off

"WPS stands for Wi-Fi Protected Setup and it is a wireless networking standard that tries to make connections between a router and wireless devices faster and easier. It works only for wireless networks that have WPA Personal or WPA2 Personal security." - Digital Citizens

You need to turn your WPS connection off because now a days people have developed the way to bypass this security measures using various programs developed by the penetrates all over the world. For this I want to describe using a picture.

I hope, you are familiar with this view. If not, then you may have bypassed the above steps. It is the cropped view of above image. Did you saw that i have underlined something there? You just need to set that radio button to No and you will prevent your router from using WPS connection setting.

Step 3: Lower Your Routers Transmitting Power

You can also prevent hackers from hacking your router by decreasing the transmitting power. What this does is that your router transmits your Wi-fi signal in small area. A lot of things happens from this. When the transmitting power of the router is less then the range of wireless signal is also limited in small area from which you can only use your WLAN within small area. This prevents hackers from hacking because, they cannot hack from distinct place as before. 

Follow the following information from picture to lower your router's transmitting power. 

Make sure that the transmitting power is set to low. The default value is High. 

Step 4: Limit Users For Your Router

You can also limit the devices that can connect to your WLAN. This can prevent an unknown device form connecting to your device. You can block certain devices or limit the devices which can only connect to your Wi-Fi. Doing so will prevent hackers from connecting to your WLAN even-though they know your password. For this we are going to use MAC filter. 

MAC means the Media Access Control or it is also known as the physical address of a device.

See the picture below on how to block certain devices.

Make sure that the radio button is set to Activated. And the Action is set to Deny Association. Now you need to put the MAC address of the devices that you don't want to use your WIFI. Now that device cannot connect to your device on entering the correct password also. You can only block 8 devices from using your connection. 

If you don't want your connection to be used other than you and your devices then there is another feature in this router. The change you need to do now is that to change the action into Allow Association just like the picture below: 

Now what you need to do is to add your own MAC address and after that no other devices will be able to use your wireless connection accept the devices whose MAC address is listed there. If you don't know on finding your MAC addresss then please follow the steps in this link.

  

Step 5: Hide Your SSIID

This is perhaps the last step you need to follow to make your router unhackable and is second most powerful way to prevent being hacked after MAC filter(fourth step). Here you will Hide your SSID (Your Wi-Fi name). On doing so, hackers need to decrypt your SSID too wich makes a long way and the time to decrypt increases on hiding your SSID. There is a simple step on how to hide your wireless network. Just follow the information in the picture below. 

Make sure that the radio button for Broadcast SSID is set to No. 

On performing the above steps please don't forget to click the save button at last which you can find at the bottom of the page. 

Hence, You are all done. Now your router is 100 percent safe and even professional hackers need to stretch their heads to hack the router. If you have any complain or suggestion for the post the please comment below.