[ale] Putting wifi in the house

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 10:35 -0500, Philip Polstra wrote:
> It isn't totally pointless.  It will detour the casual bandwidth
> leach.
> 
> For those of you that think it is fine to let your neighbors leach off
> your bandwidth consider this scenario:  Your neighbor leaches off your
> network with his Windoze laptop.  Your neighbor visits porn sites.
> Your neighbor picks up adware/spyware/viruses/worms.  Your neighbor's
> laptop starts spewing spam.  Your ISP shuts down your e-mail ability,
> and perhaps all your access.

I have squidguard blocking porn access for all machines but my machine
so that's not an issue for me.

Did I say that with my out-loud voice?

> 
> I don't care if others freeload on my network, but I don't trust them
> not to cause problems.
> 
> On 1/31/06, Pat Regan <thehead at patshead.com> wrote:
>         Philip Polstra wrote:
>         > 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.
>         
>         Disabling the broadcast of ESSID is rather pointless.  As you
>         said,
>         anyone who can crack WEP will be able to obtain your
>         ESSID.  :) 
>         
>         Pat
>         
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