*** Carroll Grigsby Sun, 17 Aug 2003 20:05:31 -0400 :

> On Sunday 17 August 2003 07:47 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> >  *** Dave Sherman Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:40:31 -0500 :
> > > Well, the worm is known to scan on ports 135 and 445. Can't say
> > > about the others...
> >
> > Thanks Dave and James. Just what I thought. I must say, that this
> > 'el cheapo' router seems to have a pretty good default setup. I can
> > do everything (web, mail, ftp, news), the router fetches time sigs
> > from a timeserver and the default setup barrs all those attacks
> > without slowing down my wireless LAN.
> >
> > wobo
> 
> Wobo:
> Errr... just in case someone else wanted to get one of these marvelous
> routers, what should they look for?

It's a cheap Pheenet WBIG-104b+
Router with 1 WAN, 4 LAN (100/10 switch), 22Mbps WLAN. 802.11b+
Supports MAC + port filtering, WEP up to 256bit

Nice webbased setup (for dummies!), as I already mentioned a nice
default setup firewall and lots of options to mess up the whole scheme!

Only thing I'll have to look for is the signal strength (power?). I'm
just 4 meters away with my laptop but I only have 82% signal strength
according to the small task bar applet.

When I put the AP on the balcony (in first floor) and move out on the
street the connection breaks down when I'm just about 10m away.

On the box it says: Transmit Output Power 17dbm (whatever that means),
looks like that is the power of the transmitter to the laptop card.

On the card's box I don't find any references to that, it's a Belkin
F5D6020 v. 2100 which runs fine under Mandrake with the pcmf502rd
module.

wobo

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