Securing wireless home network ??

I have a Netgear wireless B modem. Works fine for sharing the Internet
with. But I am concerned just a bit - it is an unsecured network, so
anyone in the neighborhood with a laptop or otherwise wireless deivcve can
can jump in.

I have no idea what is involved with securing a home network. Could
someone clue me in here please?

Thanks in advance...

...D.

Three easy ways:

1) Set up the router so that it doesn't broadcast the SSID, and make the
SSID something that people won't guess. By default, routers often have the
SSID set to 'default' or the manufacturer's name. Set it to some random
collection of letters. Set your laptop the same way and no one will easily
find your router.

2) Set up WEP security. You pick WEP keys for both the router and your
laptop.

3) Set up the router so that it only recognizes the MAC address of your
laptop's wireless connection. That way, your machine is the only machine
your router will recognize.



"...D." <d@no_usenet_email..org> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have a Netgear wireless B modem. Works fine for sharing the Internet
> with. But I am concerned just a bit - it is an unsecured network, so
> anyone in the neighborhood with a laptop or otherwise wireless deivcve can
> can jump in.
>
> I have no idea what is involved with securing a home network. Could
> someone clue me in here please?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> ...D.

well, i could tell you what to do, but I enjoy using peoples wireless
connections that aren't locked down.

thanks

ps just so you know, read the manual with your wireless router, unless
you bought some cheap cruddy one, it will tell you how to secure the
router.

but sharing internet isn't a bad thing. you can turn off all ports but
80 so people could only access the web, but I can understand why you
wouldn't want to.

On 1 Mar 2005 09:52:36 -0800, "nyder" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>well, i could tell you what to do, but I enjoy using peoples wireless
>connections that aren't locked down.
>
>thanks
>
>ps just so you know, read the manual with your wireless router, unless
>you bought some cheap cruddy one, it will tell you how to secure the
>router.
>
>but sharing internet isn't a bad thing. you can turn off all ports but
>80 so people could only access the web, but I can understand why you
>wouldn't want to.

Clue: try proper quoting for your next batch of enlightenments...

nyder wrote:
> well, i could tell you what to do, but I enjoy using peoples wireless
> connections that aren't locked down.
>
> thanks
>
> ps just so you know, read the manual with your wireless router, unless
> you bought some cheap cruddy one, it will tell you how to secure the
> router.
>
> but sharing internet isn't a bad thing. you can turn off all ports but
> 80 so people could only access the web, but I can understand why you
> wouldn't want to.
>

Sharing is bad in that other users then take your bandwidth so yer
slower then or they can abuse the net like spamming or servers or p2p
etc even if you close all, but port 80. i think., but not totaly sure..
however if possible and a user doesn't mind, they could limit the speed
at which others can get. most i don't think do this, but i don't know
what routers do this or don't let you limit the speed like that.

i totally agree tho you should disable broadcast of ssid, enable the
allow by mac address only. at the least disable ssid broadcast. setting
up WAP or WEP is more difficult however pretty straight forward if yoo
go slowly.