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Title: Give me strength
Post by: guest146 on February 18, 2008, 07:35:31 PM

If you think motorcycles are trouble try configuring a wireless network. What little hair I had has now been pulled out.  Bloody coomputers   :'(

Ken

Title: Re: Give me strength
Post by: Steve H on February 18, 2008, 09:37:08 PM

Wires are the way to go, untidy but reliable.

Title: Re: Give me strength
Post by: Steve Lake on February 18, 2008, 10:37:46 PM

Piece of pish Ken.....whats the problem.......do you want a hand?

Don't forget to set up a WEP key or you will be vulnerable

Title: Re: Give me strength
Post by: Andy M on February 19, 2008, 08:05:20 AM

The WEP key is usually the problem in my experience. You buy the transmitter and reciever together, so why don't they just set them in the shop to some random paired 25 digit alpha numeric? My next door neighbours key is "home123", how secure is that  :-\

Simple solution, stuff the WEP key rubbish and uplug the transmitter when not using it. Anyone who wants to break in has to do it while you are there watching.

Andy

Title: Re: Give me strength
Post by: guest146 on February 19, 2008, 05:27:11 PM

Its going now, It was saying  no authentication but eventually it got to a page and I re entered my user details and its going. I had a wired modem but we don't have good lines out here and it kept droping the connection somehow the wireless don't do that.

Thanks for the help
Ken

Title: Re: Give me strength
Post by: Steve Lake on February 19, 2008, 11:02:01 PM

Thing is Andy......with no security key anyone can log into your network and access the internet, whilst the router is switched on, and it is unlikely that you would realise it, even if you were using it at the same time, just a minor degredation in upload/download speed.

An example.......I had to collect my wife from Downham Market railway station a fwe months ago.....i arrived fairly early, so sat and listened to the archers, then, being the nerdy geezer I am, got my laptop out and completed a couple of quotations i was preparing.......and lo and behold....4 wireless networks available.....3 unsecured!!!

I logged onto one, straight onto the internet.......I leave the rest to your imagination

Suffice to say I could have downloaded god knows what via that portal....and when the police call ...it's that poor blokes IP address that is flagged up as having downloaded the stuff.....

Its the wild west out there .... get your wireless keys set up for 128 bit, and make sure you have a working firewall

Title: Re: Give me strength
Post by: guest27 on February 20, 2008, 07:47:06 PM

Have a friend who is a network nerd and he has one of these mobile on steroids clam shell things, one of his pass times when sent to courses away from home is to sit in the pub seeing how many unsecured or poorly secured networks he can get on - from one seat in a pub in London he managed 9.

I think mine is secure - but if not he will be over soon...

R