I think you can also use MAC address filtering. This allows you
to allow connections only from those machines who's hardware
ethernet address is registered with the router.
David Scheidt wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2008 10:56 AM, Ron Schmittou <rs1121@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> SO what should us more mechanically inclined than technically inclined folks
>> do? I thought setting up with a required key you have to enter was secure?
>> How are people getting pass this?
>
> There are two sorts of encryption used by wireless networks (Well, two
> supported by the hardware,. there are other methods that work on top
> of the network layer.) These are WEP and WPA. WEP is seriously
> broken; you can get software that will crack it in minutes. It is,
> unfortunately, still in wide use, and the default for lots of routers.
> The newer standard is WPA. it's much stonger encryption. It's not
> as widely used, because for some time, there was poor support for it.
> However, anything sold with the Wi-Fi trademark on it in the last four
> (almost five) years supports it. There's no excuse to be using WEP
> these days, given the prices of decent replacement hardware.
>
> Make sure you use WPA, a decent shared passphrase, and you'll be okay.
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