[ale] Putting wifi in the house

[Pat Regan]

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 don't care if others freeload on my network, but I don't trust them not to
> cause problems.

I might not have been clear.  Disabling your ESSID broadcast on an AP
that only allows WEP encrypted traffic is pretty pointless.  Knowing the
ESSID doesn't let you connect without the keys, but the ESSID broadcast
does allow machines that know the key to automatically know they are in
range of that particular network.

Pat
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