Hamachi

Last Thursday on Teckzilla they got a question about VPN’s and they came up with two good free ones Open VPN and Hamachi by log me in. I thought about doing Open VPN but I did not have a spare PC to install it on so I then Looked at Hamachi I downloaded it and installed it and what can I say it worked. It took me a bit to hang of how to set it up but now that I have I love it. Now as long as I have a internet connection I can get to my files on my network drive as if I’m home and that is the part I most like about Hamachi also I don’t even have to config my router firewall or open any ports. It just works. At the bottom is a clip from teckzilla from Thursday enjoy.

Just A Little Change

By now you might have noticed that there are ads on the site now. Well I know cause I put them there. I just thought that maybe I can make I can make a few cents off of this blog I thought it might be cool. Making money really is not the point as to why I do this it it because I I just want to have a voice in the tech world. If the ads are annoying to anyone who dose read this blog place tell me on twitter and I will try and make them less annoying or even get rid of them.

Thanks,

-Mike

Securing Your WIFI

Every place I go and look for WIFI everyone has there WIFI encrypted with WEP. Witch I guess is better then having your WIFI out in the open with no encryption. But still you can just Google cracking WEP and get a program that can crack it in seconds. So you might be thinking what do I do then, well there is only one thing you can do and that is turn on WPA encryption. Most routers now come with a quick setup CD and when you get to setting up the security by default most routers are set to WEP cause when you do WPA windows by default dose not authenticate for WPA encryption so what you see is in the net work discovery list is this

 

witch means you cant get online. what you have to do now is follow these steps:

Go Start and then Connect to.

Then you should go to the connect to screen with all the networks in the area. Right click on your network and go to properties.

Once the properties are open click security type and switch it to WPA2 personal and encryption type to AES.

Now just hit ok and you should connect to your network and now you have a stronger encryption. Just remember when you make the password when you setup the router you make it random and long to increase the strength of the password.

 

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