- 1. [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost (score: 1)
- Author: Wayne <wmc_st@xxiii.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:00:06 -0500
- I've dug through the source code to some of the Linksys boxes that it's available for. Apparently the same frequency range is used in many countries. But local regulations may not allow full strength
- /html/shop-talk/2008-01/msg00149.html (7,500 bytes)
- 2. Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Gingerich" <bill@gingerich.us>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:52:06 -0600
- Another side effect of boosting power is that it allows others to access your network more easily. None of the security on access points is foolproof. While it may not be likely, they can be hacked.
- /html/shop-talk/2008-01/msg00176.html (6,951 bytes)
- 3. Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost (score: 1)
- Author: PJ McGarvey <pj_mcgarvey@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:34:00 -0500
- And while we're briefly on the topic of wireless networks getting hacked, nobody should be using WEP encryption anymore, attacks have come out in the last year or so that are making it almost trivial
- /html/shop-talk/2008-01/msg00186.html (9,345 bytes)
- 4. Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost (score: 1)
- Author: David Hillman <hillman@planet-torque.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:55:33 -0500 (EST)
- This is a pet peeve of mine, and it's ironic you mention it in a thread about signal boosting. Many, if not most, of the people on this list appear to have significant chunks of property. If your wir
- /html/shop-talk/2008-01/msg00187.html (8,651 bytes)
- 5. Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost (score: 1)
- Author: Wayne <wmc_st@xxiii.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:16:18 -0500
- Don't make too many assumptions about wireless range. I had a WAP in my 2nd floor loft / computer room. The wife & I have similar Dell notebooks with built in wi-fi. Both got so-so signals in the hou
- /html/shop-talk/2008-01/msg00188.html (9,089 bytes)
- 6. Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost (score: 1)
- Author: PJ McGarvey <pj_mcgarvey@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:17:45 -0500
- It's almost as trivial to configure WEP security on a router as it is to crack it these days. Or as trivial as changing the default password on the router - which I'm assuming you've done in order to
- /html/shop-talk/2008-01/msg00189.html (10,571 bytes)
- 7. Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:17:47 -0500
- Wireless signals go a lot farther than you think. With a directional antenna, I can pick up -- and snoop, and use -- about a dozen wireless networks, all of which are at least 800 feet from the house
- /html/shop-talk/2008-01/msg00190.html (9,154 bytes)
- 8. Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost (score: 1)
- Author: David Hillman <hillman@planet-torque.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:50:52 -0500 (EST)
- That's kind-of what I was getting at. The original claim was "nobody" should run WEP. It's good enough for some people due to geography, and if nothing else, it gets you above the low-hanging "totall
- /html/shop-talk/2008-01/msg00192.html (9,200 bytes)
- 9. Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:56:11 -0800
- And I think that's an important point : both can be true ! You may find that it doesn't work for you in the den; but the kid parked out on the road with his laptop can find just the right spot and u
- /html/shop-talk/2008-01/msg00193.html (8,508 bytes)
- 10. Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Schmittou" <rs1121@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:56:34 -0600
- 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? --Original Me
- /html/shop-talk/2008-01/msg00194.html (9,756 bytes)
- 11. Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost (score: 1)
- Author: PJ McGarvey <pj_mcgarvey@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:16:11 -0500
- For the mechanically inclined? Hehe, well let's see, live underground, wrap your house in concrete or paint your walls with RF-blocking paint (it exists). The attacks have to do with weaknesses in th
- /html/shop-talk/2008-01/msg00195.html (13,169 bytes)
- 12. Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:24:08 -0500
- 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 seriou
- /html/shop-talk/2008-01/msg00196.html (10,509 bytes)
- 13. Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost (score: 1)
- Author: Drew Rogge <drew@DasRogges.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:34:10 -0800
- 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. __________________________
- /html/shop-talk/2008-01/msg00197.html (10,797 bytes)
- 14. Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:38:00 -0500
- It's really easy to fake MAC addresses. It's a bunch of work to set mac address filtering up, and keep the lists maintained, and it *doesn't work*. use WPA, or a higher level encryption protocol, lik
- /html/shop-talk/2008-01/msg00198.html (9,986 bytes)
- 15. Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost (score: 1)
- Author: Michael Burdick <burdickm@mindspring.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:34:15 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
- To bring in another recent thread, if you have Tivo and use it on a wireless network, WEP is your only security option. WPA is not supported. Mike Durham, NC --Original Message-- ____________________
- /html/shop-talk/2008-01/msg00200.html (9,824 bytes)
- 16. Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:42:31 -0500
- That's not true. Tivo has supported WPA since software version 8.1. -- David Scheidt dmscheidt@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.ht
- /html/shop-talk/2008-01/msg00201.html (9,670 bytes)
- 17. Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Mele" <paul.mele@usermail.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:10:30 -0500
- Are we talking the 64-bit WEP that left 14 bits at 0, with no shared key, or the 128-bit with shared key? PM And while we're briefly on the topic of wireless networks getting hacked, nobody should be
- /html/shop-talk/2008-01/msg00202.html (9,509 bytes)
- 18. Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost (score: 1)
- Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:20:13 -0500
- Either. It's fundamentally borked; you'd have to try really, really hard to make a worse security system. There's no reason to use WEP, unless you have a handful of embedded legacy devices that can't
- /html/shop-talk/2008-01/msg00203.html (9,667 bytes)
- 19. Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost (score: 1)
- Author: Matt Wehland <mattw@webtripper.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:21:28 -0600
- It is absolutely trivial to spoof MAC address's. In minutes I can set up one machine to spoof the MAC's of any number of machines, appearing to be a whole network. This option should not even be allo
- /html/shop-talk/2008-01/msg00207.html (9,441 bytes)
- 20. Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:28:22 -0500 (EST)
- I you want to be no-fooling secure, don't use wireless. Mark _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html Shop-talk mailing list http://autox.team
- /html/shop-talk/2008-01/msg00208.html (9,101 bytes)
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