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Another option: only use wires. If you don't like wires running through your house, then use PowerLine adapters to use your very electrics as the network. Then you can't be hacked without actually being inside your house.
Not broadcasting SSID may not deter those scanning for networks, but it'll at least deter the casual bandwidth snatchers. MAC 'whitelisting' and IP range filtering also strongly improve the security of the network. A big, long, complicated passkey/phrase makes it that much more tedious to try and break in using dictionary or brute attacks. Some routers offer WPA+WPA2 PSK+AES encryption, which is at least somewhat more secure than simply WPA2. Push-to-connect security improves things a lot though, since it makes "new connections" much harder. It just annoys me having to push a button on the router to enable new connections for 2 minutes then having to try and make sure that the new device can get the pass phrase accepted in time.
On the other hand, MAC addresses can be spoofed and IPs can be 'ridden', if the person knows what they're doing. Also long passkeys/phrases are annoying since you have to keep them stored somewhere, and if someone discovers where you've put it, then it's useless.
Better solution: get an unlimited bandwidth deal with a new ISP. Then it doesn't matter how much people use your connection.
Bottom line: if a hacker really wants to get into your network, you can't really stop them. There are always ways around security if you try hard enough. If it's just casual bandwidth stealers though, the most basic security often deters them.
Not broadcasting SSID may not deter those scanning for networks, but it'll at least deter the casual bandwidth snatchers. MAC 'whitelisting' and IP range filtering also strongly improve the security of the network. A big, long, complicated passkey/phrase makes it that much more tedious to try and break in using dictionary or brute attacks. Some routers offer WPA+WPA2 PSK+AES encryption, which is at least somewhat more secure than simply WPA2. Push-to-connect security improves things a lot though, since it makes "new connections" much harder. It just annoys me having to push a button on the router to enable new connections for 2 minutes then having to try and make sure that the new device can get the pass phrase accepted in time.
On the other hand, MAC addresses can be spoofed and IPs can be 'ridden', if the person knows what they're doing. Also long passkeys/phrases are annoying since you have to keep them stored somewhere, and if someone discovers where you've put it, then it's useless.
Better solution: get an unlimited bandwidth deal with a new ISP. Then it doesn't matter how much people use your connection.
Bottom line: if a hacker really wants to get into your network, you can't really stop them. There are always ways around security if you try hard enough. If it's just casual bandwidth stealers though, the most basic security often deters them.
