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For those who are connected through a router
4/9/2009 10:07 AM
and use wireless networking, do you broadcast your network?
If you do, consider double encryption security.
Passkey the access and configure the router to only allow the PC's in your home access to your network.
You do this by enabling the MAC address filter and entering the MAC addy's of the machines in your home.
In addition to those two features, you can also limit the number of PC's that can be on the network at any one time.
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For those who are connected through a router
4/9/2009 10:09 AM
One other note. Beware wireless extension hubs.
While you must enter the MAC addy for the hub, if an intruder tries to hijack your bandwith and is closer to the extension hub than the main router, they can get in.
The wireless extension hubs that I am aware of do not allow you to configure security in the same manner as you can with the router.
Therefore, since the router recognizes the MAC addy of the hub as valid, anything that picks up the hub broadcast instead of the router broadcast, will be able to access your network.
FYI.
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For those who are connected through a router
4/11/2009 12:42 AM
jlb wrote:
and use wireless networking, do you broadcast your network?
If you do, consider double encryption security.
Passkey the access and configure the router to only allow the PC's in your home access to your network.
You do this by enabling the MAC address filter and entering the MAC addy's of the machines in your home.
In addition to those two features, you can also limit the number of PC's that can be on the network at any one time.
Those help, but hiding the name of your network doesn't help much; it's about as useful as switching off your front light to hop criminals don't see your house at night. I hace a free app for my iPhone that will find any network hidden or not within range.
Limiting the number of PCs that have access is another small step, but once you switch off a PC, then you're vulnerable again.
The best thing is to simply have a router with up-to-date security features WPA / WPA-2 with strong Pre-Shared-Key.
WEP is very weak by comparison. There are applications out there to systematically generate the 128bit key in a few minutes.
With just a little searching I found a
Tutorial on WEP Cracking
The short of it is that WEP always uses the same key throughout the conversation and with all clients and this allows a hacker the opportunity to gather enough information to guess the key.
WPA after the inital authentication dynamically changes the key preventing the hacker from being able to gather enough information to guess the key, before it has changed.
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For those who are connected through a router
4/27/2009 8:03 PM
thanks to both of you guys for the router info. Bought a new router and took it to the isp guys here in Wenatchee. Come to find out I wasnt connected to my own router. Was using the links system across the street at the library. Very weak and little connectivity.
So after an entire hour plus on the phone today to the tech guy, walla, high speed sittin on the sofa, thinking about those Barry O stickedrs JLB had on his fifth wheel.....oh yeah baby......saw them with my own eyes, dont let him kid yous...ar ar
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For those who are connected through a router
4/27/2009 8:04 PM
and here is the kicker. Bought a new D-link and come to find out it was useless, prolly on the shelf to long. D-link 3210 or sumpin like that. Re configured the old one and presto chango, up and runnin.