Mike, I had no idea the ins and outs of all this, but Lee helped and now I feel I am pretty safe from the outside world using my system. Go into the Airport Administration Utility. You need to set a password to get into the utility so others can't access it. Once open highlight your Airport hub, then when it opens go to the tabs on the left to the Password protection.
There use the 128 bit WEP and make the password at least 16 characters/numbers. Save it and from then on I don't believe anyone can use your connection. Now, you said this was a Airport Type setup, so possibly you aren't using Apple's equipment, in which case this won't help. I did have hitchhikers on my system at the office, but once I learned how to set it up no one is on there but myself. As far as the kid hanging outside windows that is another story and it depends on how firm you want to get. I had that twice but in each case they only did it once and after having a talk with them it stopped. John R. On Jul 21, 2004, at 8:29 PM, Mike Watkins wrote: > All, > > Is there anything I need to do to protect my computer's DSL service > from being used by someone outside my home? I do not have a wireless/ > airport type set-up... just a regular BellSouth high speed DSL > conection. > > There's a kid in our neighborhood who is lurking outside some of my > neighbor's houses to use their internet on his laptop... I've seen him > by two of my neighbor's houses, and that's what he says he's doing. He > told me he didn't think they'd mind. (Of course, they're not home at > the time.) He sat out in front of my next-door neighbor's for several > hours on Monday. She doesn't have a wireless set-up, either... perhaps > he was really tapping into the folks across the street's system? > > If he or someone else can access my internet, what are the dangers to > my system? I don't know how skilled he is. If he did anything illegal > using my connection, or if his computer had a virus, or whatever... > what could happen? Would you report him to anyone... and, if so, who? > > Anyone know about this stuff? > > Mike > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20040721/ef3f0347/attachment.bin
