I would suggest turning on wep or one of the other encrypted protocols. If you don't, someone can easily snoop your trafic. This will allow them to inpersonate one of your computers and get on your network even if you have only a specific set of MAC addresses allowed. WEP is not totally secure either; but, it is hard enough that hackers will move on to other access points that aren't protected. I can attach to 4 other networks other than mine from my home. These others are wide open and broadcasting. What people don't realize you can be held responsible if someone uses your network to hack computers.
I tried to explain this to my neighbor and help him get encryption set up; but, he hasn't taken me up on it yet. Terry On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:57:53 -0400 (EDT)you write: > >Brice, > >Yeah, it is possible. If you open your browser on your desktop and go to >192.168.1.1 you can log into your router. Then you can turn on the >wireless radio and set up some other things. > >Make damn sure you change the password on the admin user. Also, change >the S I D to some other name. Actually, I have mine set not to broadcast >the sid at all. > >You can also set up the wireless to only accept connections from specific >machines. You may want to do that as well so that your neighbors aren't >surfing on your network. > >Later. > >-- >Blue skies. >Dan Rossi >Carnegie Mellon University. >E-Mail: d...@andrew.cmu.edu >Tel: (412) 268-9081
