[Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost

[Ron Schmittou]

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?

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[mailto:shop-talk-bounces+rs1121=earthlink.net at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
David Scheidt
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:18 AM
To: David Hillman
Cc: shop-talk at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost

On Jan 23, 2008 9:55 AM, David Hillman <hillman at planet-torque.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, PJ McGarvey wrote:
> > 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 to break.
>
>     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 wireless signal doesn't extend
> beyond your house, nevermind off your property, is there really a huge
> risk to using light-duty security?  No.

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.  One of
these, I helped set up, and I know he complains that it doesn't work
well in the living room, yet I can use it a quarter mile away.


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