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RE: Worried about router
WPA > WEP In terms of security and useability. I do agree with cookie, encryption should be mandatory. Infact i'm pretty sure my netgear wireless router asked me what type during install.

If your really worried about your neighbour the greatest length of security you could go to is this:

Enabling WPA (which you should already have on)

Using the "Access List" - Restricting MAC addresses (basicially computers) to computers that have been allowed by you in the router settings page.

and disabling the broadcast of your SSID (your network name). When you scan for wireless networks only networks appear that have SSID broadcasting enabled, if you disable it when users scan for wireless networks in your area they simply see nothing. To connect you need to type in the SSID of your network as it will not appear when scanning.

With those very secure settings (overthetop but if you want to be really cautious.) if a user wants to connect they basicially need to find out the SSID of your network, enter the correct password of your encryption and then also have been allowed access by you in the "Access List" of your router's settings.


In response to PSP's only having WEP, maybe you should upgrade your firmware as my cousins has WPA compatability and he connected to my network fine with it .

This post was edited on 12-29-2005 at 10:03 PM by Chestah.
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Worried about router - by Nathan on 12-29-2005 at 10:37 AM
RE: Worried about router - by Chestah on 12-29-2005 at 10:40 AM
RE: Worried about router - by Nathan on 12-29-2005 at 10:43 AM
RE: Worried about router - by Chestah on 12-29-2005 at 10:45 AM
RE: Worried about router - by Nathan on 12-29-2005 at 10:47 AM
RE: Worried about router - by stoshrocket on 12-29-2005 at 10:47 AM
RE: Worried about router - by M73A on 12-29-2005 at 10:49 AM
RE: Worried about router - by stoshrocket on 12-29-2005 at 10:52 AM
RE: Worried about router - by CookieRevised on 12-29-2005 at 10:55 AM
RE: Worried about router - by Mentality on 12-29-2005 at 11:38 AM
RE: Worried about router - by stoshrocket on 12-29-2005 at 11:46 AM
RE: Worried about router - by Nathan on 12-29-2005 at 12:36 PM
RE: Worried about router - by Jhrono on 12-29-2005 at 01:15 PM
RE: Worried about router - by Nathan on 12-29-2005 at 01:18 PM
RE: Worried about router - by Jhrono on 12-29-2005 at 01:33 PM
RE: Worried about router - by Nathan on 12-29-2005 at 01:41 PM
RE: Worried about router - by Ezra on 12-29-2005 at 01:59 PM
RE: Worried about router - by Nathan on 12-29-2005 at 02:31 PM
RE: Worried about router - by Chestah on 12-29-2005 at 10:02 PM
RE: Worried about router - by Super Dude on 12-30-2005 at 01:02 AM
RE: Worried about router - by Jhrono on 12-30-2005 at 03:44 AM
RE: Worried about router - by Super Dude on 12-30-2005 at 04:13 AM
RE: Worried about router - by Chestah on 12-30-2005 at 04:19 AM
RE: Worried about router - by Jhrono on 12-30-2005 at 04:44 AM
RE: Worried about router - by Super Dude on 12-30-2005 at 05:02 AM
RE: Worried about router - by Underlord on 12-30-2005 at 05:54 AM
RE: Worried about router - by Super Dude on 12-30-2005 at 08:16 AM
RE: Worried about router - by Nathan on 12-30-2005 at 08:44 AM
RE: Worried about router - by Eljay on 12-30-2005 at 09:21 AM
RE: Worried about router - by Anubis on 12-30-2005 at 09:30 AM


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