You have a point... In an ideal world, bandwidth would be a lot cheaper, caps wouldn't exist, and we could share the left-over capacity nicely.
However its not, and remember the other side of things... "give people an inch and they'll take a mile." IE, provide a service like that, and noone will thank you for it, and they'll bitch and moan whenever theres a problem. Bitter sounding? -----Original Message----- From: Jim Cheetham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 18 April 2005 9:28 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT: Wireless networks C. Falconer wrote: > Yes - WPA all the way. Or, stop everyone from trying to break your wlan, set it up with no encryption at all, do traffic shaping on the router and allow say 2kbps for a few open ports to allow neighbours and visitors to use the net to check for email (HTTP,HTTPS,POP,IMAP,SMTP,SSH). Then set up OpenVPN to allow a properly authenticated user to gain full (encrypted) access to the private LAN behind the router. The *worst* thing about wlan encryption is that it's a challenge, and cracking it doesn't mean the manufacturers change the protection. Crack OpenVPN, and the project can fix the problem openly. Give them "something for nothing", and the temptation to crack is reduced. And how else are you going to cope with friends visiting with laptops? Actually *remember* your wlan key password? I can't remember mine (it's all configured up in the client machines already) -jim, being contrary. Good morning!
