macgig wrote:
- should I change the admin username even though the password is unlikely to be guessed?
- login configuration> Maximum Unsuccessful Login Attempts is set to 5. can I make this higher or lower? it locked me out once already which is a pain to reset.
- should I disable SSID broadcast?
do I need to change anything since the tech installed or is everything already secure as it should be?
thanks.
1 I would and did as there is no reason not to and it provides some extra security.
2 I would set it lower however I know what my userid and password are and typically would never be wrong more than once in succession. I thought it auomatically re-enabled from a logock out after some amount of elapsed time. If not then it's a good reason to make a backup of your configuration in case you have to do a factory defaults reset.
3 Again why not as it provides another level of security.
As to the last comment I doubt the tech did anything but the bare minimum. I'd guarantee that he left your wireless security as wep with the wep password being what was printed on the router. If I were you I'd check the settings very carefully.