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Conclusion on wireless

Do not buy it stay with your wire router
Every body i read have problem with the wireless

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floff wrote:
> Conclusion on wireless
>
> Do not buy it stay with your wire router
> Every body i read have problem with the wireless
>
> Have comment reply
>

Horsefeathers. Wireless does have more problems than wired, so
you should never use wireless in a situation where wired would
also suffice. But wireless offers some unique capabilities, and
millions of users have made it work.
--
Cheers, Bob

> Do not buy it stay with your wire router
> Every body i read have problem with the wireless
>
> Have comment reply

Balls!

Don't read the daily newspaper, you will not want to drive a car. ROTFL!


"floff" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Conclusion on wireless
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> Do not buy it stay with your wire router
> Every body i read have problem with the wireless
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Tom McCune complained:
>I don't like manually changing my 128 bit keys weekly,...

You must have some very valuable or dangerous secrets to hide !

I would say that most home users have no need to use encryption, let alone
changing it weekly.
Regards,
Martin

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> Tom McCune complained:
> >I don't like manually changing my 128 bit keys weekly,...
>
> You must have some very valuable or dangerous secrets to hide !
>
> I would say that most home users have no need to use encryption, let alone
> changing it weekly.
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
>

I disagree.

ANYONE who operates a wireless network that is connected to the Internet
should take all reasonable measures to keep it secure from unknown and
anonymous users. Yes, the idea of an open public hotspot has all kinds
of noble appeal, but the fact is that there are lots of people out there
who would use such access to annoy (or worse) the rest of the world.

"Martin²" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I would say that most home users have no need to use encryption, let
> alone changing it weekly.

They absolutely should be using WEP. However, I agree that weekly key
changes are overkill for the average home network.

--
John T
http://tknowlogy.com/tknoFlyer
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I agree but the number of posts here from people who dont know how to setup
the equipment in the first place make me wonder how many have any security
setup - or even changed the default password to access the system.

You and me both know better - but how many people just go out and but the
kit take it home and plug it in - if it works dont change anything. Most
people who have a computer are not tech savvy.

Try a little wardrive around with netstumbler and see how many access points
have a default setting. I found a few in a very short while in the local
area - if this is a good sample how many are out there.


Neb Revod wrote:
> In article <e7xVa.52934$(E-Mail Removed)>,
> (E-Mail Removed) says...
>> Tom McCune complained:
>>> I don't like manually changing my 128 bit keys weekly,...
>>
>> You must have some very valuable or dangerous secrets to hide !
>>
>> I would say that most home users have no need to use encryption, let
>> alone changing it weekly.
>> Regards,
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>
> I disagree.
>
> ANYONE who operates a wireless network that is connected to the
> Internet should take all reasonable measures to keep it secure from
> unknown and anonymous users. Yes, the idea of an open public hotspot
> has all kinds
> of noble appeal, but the fact is that there are lots of people out
> there who would use such access to annoy (or worse) the rest of the
> world.

Some confusion here. Everyone should use all the means at disposal to
prevent anyone USING your wireless connection. But that doesn't stop someone
'sniffing the packets', but encryption would prevent them from reading the
info. Right ?
So if someone wants to sit outside my drive and read my emails and see what
websites I visit,
they are welcome to it, they would soon get bored....
Regards,
Martin

> do their banking online (even if nothing more than checking the balance of
> their 401k). While it may not be worth much, they may consider it
> confidential. WEP adds one more layer of protection on that information.

I think i'd bet on SSL as a better security layer than WEP in this case.
If you banking online with a bank that doesn't do SSL then I'd suggest
you change bank.

David.