Most people know they should be careful about accessing bank or financial account websites while on the Internet using a Wi-Fi signal provided at a restaurant, coffee shop, or other public place, but what about your wireless network at your own home? You should restrict access to your wireless network to keep others from accessing it.

Making your network private is easy; go to your wireless control panel, make it private, and set up a password and login. That way your home computers can access the network – but others won’t be able to.