How do I Secure My Tenda Router?

I have a Tenda N301 wireless router which I recently bought and my friend set it up for me. I have a Comcast modem connection with speeds upto 100 mb/s. Recently I have noticed that my router’s speed slows down significantly during evening and night. On further check I have noticed that more than 12 devices are connected to my wifi although I have only two. So can anyone tell me how to setup security on my router so that only I get to access it?

Here I am describing you easiest way to secure Tenda router -

Change Network Security Key -

  • Open your web browser and type Tenda router’s IP address i.e., “192.168.0.1” in the browser’s address bar. Then hit Enter key.
  • Now you are redirected to Connection Setup screen.

  • On this screen, locate Security key and enter a password into it.
  • After altering the content of security key, simply click on OK button.

Set name/password for wireless network -

  • Logged into Tenda router settings by entering “192.168.0.1” in the address bar. After this, enter login credentials and you are redirected to Tenda router administration webpage.
  • Next, navigate to WLAN settings> Basic Settings. Locate the “Main SSID” and alter its value.

  • Once SSID gets changed, apply the changes.
  • Move to the right pane and click on Disable option that is next to WPS settings. Then save the settings.

  • In next step, tap on Basic Settings> Security Settings. After this, you have to set the wireless password according to your choice. Then save the changes.
  • For connecting your wireless device to Tenda router, just search the name of Tenda router’s SSID and connect to it by entering the correct password.

After making these changes in Tenda router’s settings, you can easily secure your wireless network.

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Secure Tenda WiFi Router:

Securing your TENDA router should be your primary concern at the time of connection itself. There are multiple ways to make your Tenda router safe and secure against any kind of hacking and unethical use. I will discuss in detail on how to resolve this issue so carefully follow the instructions.

Step 1: Connect your Tenda router to the computer using an ethernet cable. One end of the cable goes inside the internet port of your router while the other end goes into the ethernet port of your computer.

Wait for few minutes to let the connection between the two system establish.

Step 2: Open your web browser and type in your IP address in the URL field and hit Enter. In case you do not know your IP address, simply Google,"My IP address" or "Tenda router default IP address" and you can copy that in the URL field.

This will take you to the login portal of your Tenda router.

Step 3: Once on the login portal, fill in your login credentials in the given box provided by your Internet Service Provider. In case your service provider did not give you any username or password then fill in the default ones.

The default username is "admin" and leave the password field blank and hit enter.

Step 4: Once on the main settings page, go to "Advanced Settings" > "Security". Here, you will need to make some changes to make secure your Tenda router.

First, change the encryption type to "WPA2" from the top as it is considered to be a government-grade encryption method and very difficult to crack.

Step 5: Below the encryption box, you will notice a box for "Passkey", this is your wifi password, change it to a secure password by using a combination of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and numerals.

Note this password in case you forget. Save the settings.

Step 6: For making the security even better you can make use of "MAC Address Filter", Mac addresses are the permananet address of a hardware and every device has a unique one.

So in case you want only a certain number of known devices to get access to your Tenda router then, add the MAC address of these devices here and save the settings. Now only those devices whose MAC address has been added can use your router.

These are a few steps to make your Tenda router safe and secure against any kind of intruder. Hopefully, these helped you in securing your Tenda router. In case you have any doubt regarding these steps, feel free to respond back to the query.

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To secure Tenda router, check these points -

Change Security mode -

  1. Firstly, logged into Tenda setup page.
  2. Then you have to choose Wireless Settings from the main menu.
  3. After this, select Wireless Settings form submenu and immediately you are redirected to a next page.
  4. On next webpage, locate Security mode option and choose “WPA-PSK”. For the WPA algorithms, click on radio box that is next to AES.

Change Wireless Channel -

  1. Log into Tenda setup page and then tap on Advanced Settings.
  2. Go to the main menu and then choose Wireless Settings.
  3. Move to submenu and again choose “Wireless settings”.
  4. Next, locate Channel and select any channel from the drop-down.
  5. At last, save the changes.
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