[ale] Putting wifi in the house

[Philip Polstra]

You definitely want to use WPA encryption.  If your router only supports
WEP, it is a least better than nothing.  Disabling the sending of the ESSID
will detour some, but I can still get it through passive sniffing.
Disabling DHCP can also detour some, but then you need to have the setup on
each computer.  Using IPSec, or some other VPN product is also a great idea.

To read more about this topic, I like the book "Wi-Foo".

Phil Polstra, CISSP

On 1/30/06, Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> The time has come for me to get WiFi instituted at home and I need to
> understand what *should* be done as opposed to *what people typically do*.
>
> I have a WiFi WAP that I bought on clearance about three years ago but
> have only fooled around with once, and I also have a PCI WiFi card that
> I bought around the same time that I haven't even used.  So, I could use
> either the WAP or I could theoretically make one out of any number of
> spare machines.
>
> What I would like to have happen is for our laptops to be able to "WiFi
> up" at home as easily as at Joe Blow's Hotspot and Cafe.  However, I
> also don't want to be trivially eavesdropped on or leeched off of (over
> the weekend, the newer laptop was finding two nearby WAPs from the
> living room and gave me the ESSID of one of them).  If those two
> concepts are not compatible, I need to know so that I can make the
> situation easily manageable.
>
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