Would You Use Wifi To Do On-Line Banking?

[sandyRoe]

If it's password protected is it as secure as a cable connection?

[rockyracoon]

Are you talking about indoors or somewhere else? I use it for banking at home but wouldn't if I was in a public type place, password protected or not.

[ummmm]

Same as Rocky.

[sandyRoe]

Indoors I had in mind.

[rockyracoon]

You'll be fine if it's just for you indoors, though there are two types of security stuff for wifi, one good the other not so. I'm sure one of the techies will be able to tell you the difference, that's even if internet providers still use the not so good one.

[rockyracoon]

When I say internet providers I mean router/hub manufacturers

[ivor4781]

yes it is if your router is set right
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001289.htm

[SlackAlice]

I would only ever use Wi Fi at home to do any online banking, never anywhere else. Generally, I restrict my banking to my home desktop which has a cabled connection to my router. My travelling laptop/tablet do not have any banking details on them at all.

ivor 4781's link at 09.27 is the way to set it up.

Very important to change your routers admin log in to something else and obviously make a note somewhere safe of what you changed it to. It's quite surprising to find how many people do not change the routers admin details leaving it on the default settings.

[Quoi]

i have seen a Linux program used to hijack a neighbours wifi internet password and service so it can be vulnerable even at home.
The odds of it happening are extremely remote though so it wouldnt concern me.
Even google maps were accused of collecting wifi information at one time.

[Ellipsis]

All online banking is done under the https protocol which is far more secure than wireless encryption per se. So, in short, yes I would use wireless to do online banking.

What I wouldn't do is use anybody's computer but my own to do online banking.

[RATTER15]

I always do, never a problem!

[Old_Geezer]

Would avoid it like the plague in a public place.

In my home on my own WiFi the risk is very slight and although I don't do so I wouldn't have any concern about doing so.

No of course it isn't as secure as cable, but your own WiFi probably doesn't carry out as far as the pavement outside anyway.

[Sycamore3House]

I always use my mobile banking where ever I am. But I do not keep enough money in the account to be totally devastated should anything happen and I do not have an overdraft

[Greedyfly]

I online bank wherever I am when I need too. My online banking app is apparently so secure that I cannot call the bank anymore without doing via my app as they won't accept my being able to pass through security on a landline - ridiculous I know.

But I wouldn't fear using your banking app when you need to wherever you are.

[woofgang]

I have used mobile banking in public but not often, not on free wifi and not in an internet cafe. I bank on my home wifi as a matter of course.