Diasble wps wndr3300

What happens when you push the big blue-light button for 5 seconds, is that all router security is turned off for 2 minutes. While it does this to give you 2 minutes to complete the WPS setup of a device with the router, that's not what you're doing. You're just providing totally insecure public access to your router for 2 minutes at a time.

The bad news is that now, WPS is now enabled on your router, until you reset the router to factory settings, and then restore whatever settings you care about back to how you had them. With WPS enabled, any nearby hacker can figure out your router PIN within a few hours (anytime, not just during the 2 minute windows) if they want to, through a well-known attack method exploiting WPS PIN/SSID/etc handling.

What you really should do is either: provide your guests the password to get connected securely to your router/network (and change the password after they leave), or just remove security for however long you want to for them, then secure it again after they leave.

If you regularly have guests who you don't trust with the password to get onto your secure network, you should set up an additional unsecured guest network. Some routers have this feature built in. What happens when you push the big blue-light button for 5 seconds, is that all router security is turned off for 2 minutes. While it does this to give you 2 minutes to complete the WPS setup of a device with the router, that's not what you're doing. You're just providing totally insecure public access to your router for 2 minutes at a time. The bad news is that now, WPS is now enabled on your router, until you reset the router to factory settings, and then restore whatever settings you care about back to how you had them. With WPS enabled, any nearby hacker can figure out your router PIN within a few hours (anytime, not just during the 2 minute windows) if they want to, through a well-known attack method exploiting WPS PIN/SSID/etc handling. What you really should do is either: provide your guests the password to get connected securely to your router/network (and change the password after they leave), or just remove security for however long you want to for them, then secure it again after they leave. If you regularly have guests who you don't trust with the password to get onto your secure network, you should set up an additional unsecured guest network. Some routers have this feature built in.