On Sun, 16 Sep 2018, David Collier-Brown wrote:
|I have a Rogers-supplied router and cable modem package, which twice has shown
|significant usage when I was out, once with the original unit and once with
|their replacement Cisco. That makes me suspicious of the current state of
|authentication for wi-fi schemes (and I use the term "schemes" advisedly: they
|used to horribly leaky (;-))
|
|What's a good approach? I have considered
|
| * MAC address lists,
| * no wi-fi (strictly wired doesn't work with solid concrete walls),
| * a second router with a more secure protocol (/is/ there such a
| protocol? And will my wife's Mac speak it?))
| * something I haven't thought of
!. yes, allow only designated MAC addresses
2. change SSID & don't broadcast it
2. consider LoRa as a possible adjunct/replacement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa
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