> Paul Ihrig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> is this fine for basic security?  or should i do a ton more?
> 

I'm no expert but I would say it depends on what you send across the
connection.  If you're doing online banking or sending stuff you
wouldn't want snooped then I'd enable all of the double super secret
encryption that some were talking about last week.

One additional step you could take that's easy is to enable MAC
filtering.  Find out the MAC addresses of the wireless cards you want
to access your router and then add them to the "allow only" list.

If you don't know the MACs, you can probably find out via your
wireless router:  when all of the computers are connected, look
through the routers web admin screens and something there should tell
you who's connected.  Just note the MAC addresses of the PCs and then
add them MAC filtering.

One additional step you could take is to turn on Personal WPA
encryption (PSK) or WEP.  WPA-PSK is supposed to be better than WEP,
but I still haven't figured out if that's true.

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