Best way to secure a WIRED router?

Is there actually a way to secure a wired router? All of the router security that i have been reading lately goes with wireless routers..

Am i Still at risk with a wired linksys router?

 

Not the same as wireless.

Strong password practices and if you feel the need, Mac filtering, is sufficient for the router. Most routers also have firewalls built in.

 

For your computer, you will want a good firewall and antivirus.

 

What you want to secure yourself from?

As compared to a Wireless, a computer has to be plugged into the Wired Router with a physical wire...

Therefore, as long as your Router is Not in a public place was any one can plug a Network Wire into it there is No real security issue.



Have Happy New Year.

 

Ditto. The wired router is the best firewall you have. It's a smart computer and will allow traffic in only if it was first requested from inside the lan. That's called the outbound rule, which means that unless there was an outbound request for a file, data to display a web page, email, etc, it doesn't come in. The router remembers every request and which nic requested it and forwards it to only that nic.

You email has to do a send/receive outbound request, you have to click on a link, your antivirus program has to initiate a request for updates, etc., etc.

The place where it all gets blown is the human element and that will defeat any firewall. We click on something we shouldn't including visiting bad web sites and allow.

The router also hides any computer attached to it from the internet. It appears to the internet and even to your ISP as the only computer you have. It is for a fact a computer. It then assigns hidden internal IPs to the lan nodes and they can't be seen from outside. The router is the computer that gets the IP the isp assigns, and it "gathers" all lan internet traffic, and puts it (google NAT) onto the internet under its own IP.

Now the script kiddies can try hacking your router which looks like your computer. That will keep them out of trouble until they get sick of it.