Check out this great post from the Your Laptop Today blog on the Blog N’ Butter Blog Network…
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Reduce the Range of your Wi-Fi Signal for Security
Great tips to reduce the range of your Wi-Fi to include just your house, instead of providing your entire neighborhood with a great Wi-Fi signal at your expense and your security!
You will have to deal with your router to modify the signal. Every router is different even inter-brand, so you’ll have to root around in the router settings and see what you can find to reduce radio transmission power. It will most likely be under some type of advanced settings.
Problem is, internet signal strength is rather fickle; if you haven’t already learned that, you are very fortunate and likely have an amazing internet connection. But for the rest of us that often struggle with dropped transmission, we understand.
Changing any settings may upset your whole network and cause you to lose signals altogether in different parts of your house. This could will also slow down internet speed, meaning how quickly pages load and files download.
So, you will need to tweak this procedure until you find a fine balance with enough bandwidth to surf and work
Although this is an effective way to better secure your network, you will still need some more safeguards to protect yourself. Use a strong admin password, wireless encryption, a firewall, and spyware scan your computer often!
For more information on this subject, you could check out: Your Laptop Today’s post
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I hope you enjoyed today’s find from Your Laptop Today on the Blog N’ Butter blog network! Until next time…
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Kimberly Edwards 
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