[ale] Putting wifi in the house

[Geoffrey]

James Sumners wrote:
> As has been said, use WPA if you can. I doubt your stand alone AP is
> going to support it unless there is a newer firmware available to add
> the support. It is relatively new. WPA support with you PCI card might
> be easier but that is going to depend on what card it is and what
> drivers you can use for it. I have an SMC 2802W for my
> router/wap/gateway and it works rather well, but I don't know if it
> supports WPA. The driver I am using is the old driver from
> prism54.org.
> 
> But really, do you really need to "secure" the wireless signal? I
> haven't seen any reason to attempt to do so. Anything sensitive I do
> is already encrypted via ssh or ssl. I don't really care if people can
> sniff my IM conversations and web surfing. If you are just worried
> about the neighbors leeching bandwidth, why not let them?

Because when the kid down the street downloads a pirated movie via your 
network, they're going to come looking for you as well.

I just walked down the street a couple of weeks ago to let a neighbor 
know that I did not appreciate his son attempting to hack my wireless.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey