HP Officejet 7610 - Other wireless security guidelines

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Other wireless security guidelines

To keep the wireless network secure, follow these guidelines:

Use a wireless password with at least 20 random characters. You can use up to 64 characters in

a WPA wireless password.

Avoid any common words or phrases, easy sequences of characters (such as all 1s), and

personally-identifiable information for wireless passwords. Always use random strings composed

of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and if allowed, special characters such as

punctuation.

ENWW

Set up the printer for wireless communication 237

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Change the default wireless password provided by the manufacturer for administrator access to

the access point or wireless router. Some routers let you change the administrator name as well.

Turn off administrative access over wireless if possible. If you do this, you need to connect to the

router with an Ethernet connection when you want to make configuration changes.

Turn off remote administrative access over the Internet on your router, if possible. You can use

Remote Desktop to make an encrypted connection to a computer running behind your router

and make configuration changes from the local computer you are accessing over the Internet.

To avoid accidentally connecting to another party's wireless network, turn off the setting to

automatically connect to non-preferred networks. This is disabled by default in Windows XP.