[Shop-talk] Wireless router - signal boost

[Drew Rogge]

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 at 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.