To: JohnHuang2
My wireless system is secure.
My son-in-law is always picking up his neighbors' signals at his house, but he never does when he brings his laptop to my house. My supposition is that since he lives in an upscale neighborhood, more people have wireless. I live in a lower middle class neighborhood.
2 posted on
02/10/2004 11:07:06 PM PST by
Jeff Chandler
(http://www.michaelmoore.com = miserable failure)
To: JohnHuang2
10 miles? As if....
3 posted on
02/10/2004 11:13:36 PM PST by
Bogey78O
(Why are we even having this debate?)
To: JohnHuang2
I found it easy to encrypt the signal when both my router & 802.11b laptop wireless card were Linksys (running with Win 98 SE).
But when I got a new laptop with a NON-Linksys wireless card and Win XP Pro, I found it a lot harder to get the laptop to communicate with the router with an encrypted signal.
If any FReeper can make that process more "user-friendly", I'd appreciate it.
4 posted on
02/10/2004 11:18:02 PM PST by
martin_fierro
(Shhh. Navel contemplation in progress)
To: JohnHuang2
High-tech criminals, using just a pocket PC and a $20 antenna, can pick up someone else's Internet connection from up to 10 miles away, says KIRO-TV in Seattle. What this article fails to point out is that this issue largely concerns 802.11b (2.4 GHz). Reliable signal only goes about 2 miles, and that's with a directional antenna. (FYI: Trader Joe's Coffee cans work better than Pringles cans.)
If one is using 802.11a (5 GHz) with the Wired Equivalency Protocol (WEP) in place (and using a key larger than 104 bits) and a LAN address pool space limited to the number of authorized users, the risk is greatly reduced.
It also helps to have a direct authentication point over an SSL tunnel with a login/pass combination satisfaction requirement before granting network access to the Internet. That way, even if someone clones your MAC address, it won't do them any good since they can't satisfy the login/pass challenge.
8 posted on
02/10/2004 11:36:30 PM PST by
Prime Choice
(I'm pro-choice. I just think the "choice" should be made *before* having sex.)
To: JohnHuang2
High-tech criminals, using just a pocket PC and a $20 antenna, can pick up someone else's Internet connection from up to 10 miles away, says KIRO-TV in Seattle. Oh, perfect!
And I can't even get a strong signal 100 feet away!
Dan
/c8
18 posted on
02/11/2004 6:44:25 AM PST by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: BellStar
wireless ping
20 posted on
02/11/2004 2:59:03 PM PST by
anymouse
To: BellStar
wireless ping
21 posted on
02/11/2004 2:59:07 PM PST by
anymouse
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