Do not place it near other devices that emit wireless frequencies, such as microwave ovens or wireless phones. Do not place it in the immediate vicinity of a wall that will take the signal. Do not put it on the floor but on a desk, table or shelf. Place the router close to the center of your home. Position your router near where you spend the most time on the web.Ī few tips for positioning the Qualcomm Atheros router: Position the Qualcomm Atheros in a good place The initial replacement of the network name, as well as regular replacement, make it difficult to identify the network easily and a also make it difficult for a subsequent attack. These names are known and limited in number, enabling to scan quickly and easily for them, and to easily detect the network and its parameters if there is a match. Most Qualcomm routers have the default SSID. This will protect your Qualcomm Atheros router from attacks by fake requests (cross-site request forgery CSRF), that most often attack through the user's browser and try to access the router by using IP addresses set as default. You can change the IP addresses, that are used to a group reserved for private networks. The routers take the first possible address (192.168.0.1), change it to 192.168.0.99 or something similar to that, which you can easily remember. Without it, the only way to access the router may be to reset the device’s factory settings.Ĭhange Qualcomm Atheros Default IP Address
You may not have to use this password often, so be sure to have it written in a safe place. So when you first connect to you new Qualcomm Atheros router’s interface, the most important thing is to change your initial password. Hackers know this and always try to access your network with these preconfigured passwords. Most Qualcomm routers come with an elementary password known to everyone and written on the device's box. How to Protect Your Qualcomm Atheros Router Change the Qualcomm Atheros Default Password This data will be required, if you apply a reset the Qualcomm Atheros to factory settings. They include an IP address, username and password. The router's default settings are those which the router possess at it’s first launch. If the router does not work the way you want, you can not access the router by IP address or the username and password do not match, you will probably need to reset it, following the Qualcomm Atheros reset instructions.ĭefault settings for the Qualcomm Atheros router How to reset the Qualcomm Atheros router to the factory settings Quick and easy solutions to your Qualcomm Atheros router problems can be found in the user's manual.
User’s manual for Qualcomm Atheros Router To login the router with the preconfigured default data, follow the guide to Qualcomm Atheros login. How to login to the Qualcomm Atheros router interface