"Mark" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Mr T" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>I have recently setup a wireless network with my laptop and 3 desktops. At
>> present I have no security on my network. Can someone advise me what
>> security I need to setup on my network?
>> Thanks
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>> Mr T
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> The best thing to do is enable MAC address filtering on the access point.
> Add the MAC addresses of the wireless networkcards. This will make it much
> harder for any random passer to even connect to the AP network.
LOL that is *not* at all secure! If I was beside your house and you had MAC
filtering on, I could watch about 10 packets, get the MAC address of the
person using the network, then just change my NIC to match it.
The *ONLY* secure way (NOT WEP!!) is to use WPA with AES (NOT TKIP!!!) -
also using WPA with AES means less bandwidth is used in communication, so
you're not sacrificing speed to such an extent.
Always amuses me how random comments get made about this subject.
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