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I have a wi-fi router in my home, and have been less than careful in allowing guests to login with my password. &nbsp;Is there any way they can maliciously access my personal data through my wi-fi router? &nbsp;Or through my modem (which has the same password)?<br />
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Thanks,<br />
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Phil
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I have a wi-fi router in my home, and have been less than careful in allowing guests to login with my password.  Is there any way they can maliciously access my personal data through my wi-fi router?  Or through my modem (which has the same password)?

Thanks,

Phil

Privacy Access Through Broadband or Wi-Fi Router

A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. Routers perform the "traffic directing" functions on the Internet. The most familiar type of routers are home and small office cable or DSL routers that simply pass data, such as web pages, email, IM, and videos between computers and the Internet. More sophisticated routers, such as enterprise routers, connect large business or ISP networks up to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speed along the optical fiber lines of the Internet backbone. Though routers are typically dedicated hardware devices, use of software-based routers has grown increasingly common.

Routers

The term broadband commonly refers to high-speed Internet access that is always on and faster than the traditional dial-up access. Broadband includes several high-speed transmission technologies such as digital subscriber line (DSL), cable, fiber optics, wireless (for which there is a separate topic), satellite and broadband over powerlines (BPL).