Wireless router safety

[Brent276]

Hi Everyone,

    I have two different paths into my wireless router One I provide the name and password to my guests the other only I know the password to. I am concerned if someone could hack into anything I have connected to the router. Any thoughts?

[Angie520]

I contacted the Router company and they walked me through how to rename it for guests with a password.  I keep the router locked inside a closet.

[Branka-and-Silvia0]

Good question @Brent276 , I also wonder if I should share the router I use with guests

[Michelle53]

@Brent276    You should have, at minimum,  the capability to set up a secured,  encrypted Guest Network. It should have its own login and password, and when you look at what networks are available, you should see it as a separate network from your main network,  with the "lock" icon. 

It keeps any devices that log into it separate from your main network (and each other, if more than one). 

The types of guest networks that open a web page asking for the password, and show up as "open" on the available networks list,  are less secure. 

It is theoretically possible for a hacker to gain access to a main network from a guest network, but a person would need to be pretty determined to do that. 

The most secure situation is, of course, two separate routers. 

[Brent276]

Thanks everyone that’s great information. I went ahead and established A guest network,’ Toledo Police Department” and another one ‘FBI surveillance van’