wireless internet

[honsbeek]

Hi there ,

I Got a second computer recenty and need to get a wireless Lan , what are the cnages that other people in my apartment try steal the signal for their own laptop etc.

 

[SasparillaMayonase]

Go Wireless.

Nobody leeches internet connections anymore with the new minimum wage.

 

[jjnguy13]

Chances are good!

...but really, don't worry about it. They won't steal too much bandwidth. And if you are really worried about it you can set up a protected network with a password. But don't ask me how.

 

[needhelpnoobie]

do not allow anyone to access your connection. enable 128 wep encryption login/pass and change the channel from default.

people are gross and d/l nasty kiddy porn and other incriminating things that you do not want associated with your name/connection.

 

[Ancalagon_uk]

use windows' wizard to set up a network. not sure how to do this using a wireless router or access point.

anyway, in windows, what you do is you insert a usb key. windows puts certain files on it. you insert that key into every other pc on the network. those pcs, and only those, can then access the network. works great.

 

[croc]

At a mininum, enable WPA... (idiots...) (Don't know why I try to help, it'd be a lot easier for me to just use you connection....)

 

[needhelpnoobie]

lol I was using someones connection a few minutes ago. They have desktop sharing on even.... Loads of family pics, eMoney, notepads with logins/passes.

People are so stupid. They're lucky I'm a nice guy and let them be.

 

[geofelt]

I think the simplest way is to implement wireless MAC filtering. Each wireless device has a unique MAC address, you just enter this address in the appropriate place in your router software. It will then ignore connection requests from anything except your list of MAC addresses. I am no expert on networking, but I found this easy to do.

 

[theboomboomcars]

Use encryption. If your hardware supports WPA use it, if not use WEP. Also MAC address filtering is easy and allows a bit more security, though it is pretty easy to get around. Disabling ESSID broadcast helps a bit too, but it is also easy to get around.

 

[killerb255]

lol I was using someones connection a few minutes ago. They have desktop sharing on even.... Loads of family pics, eMoney, notepads with logins/passes.

People are so stupid. They're lucky I'm a nice guy and let them be.

Happy medium:

Type a warning in Notepad and save it to their Desktop.

 

[MoNeY3865]

Definitely go for the highest security possible, it may take some time and knowledge to set up, but once it is you'll be safer from all sorts of bad things. Toms networking has some articles on how to set things up and there are numerous articles on the net. Again, be paranoid when setting things up, bandwidth stealing sucks but not nearly as bad as life changing identity theft.

I have my radio link set up as a wireless bridge, which is similar to MAC filtering. My two access points will only talk to the other's MAC address. I still have WPA encryption enabled with a pre-shared key because MAC addresses can be spoofed.

Beyond that I run with limited and specified IP addresses on my network so that unknown connecting computers can't even get a DHCP lease. Probably too paranoid (I live in the country), but I have little fear of wireless tampering.

 

[xstec]

Nowadays most wireless routers come with wireless security enabled out of the box, they usually have a security pass on a label underneath the router itsself. just connect to the wireless and type that pass in.

If not it is pretty straight forward in setting a password, just go to security settings on your router.