Don Bowey wrote:
On 2/1/06 8:22 AM, in article ,
"Dan" wrote:
I need to connect my wife's mac laptop to our cable Internet. I have a
pc at the modem. Maybe I'm a bit paranoid, but a wireless router
concerns me, even with encryption.
I agree, you are paranoid. I have two PCs (both wireless) and two Macs (1
wireless and 1 Ethernet) served by a wireless router with 64 bit encryption,
and don't have any problems, nor do I expect any. I'm using an Airport
Extreme, which makes it simple for all to share a USB printer located near
the base station. Wireless would permit your wife to be just about
anywhere in your house or outside with the laptop, without dragging a cable.
Don
It doesn't hurt to be a little paranoid. A while back I was running 64
bit WEP encryption and just for fun I downloaded a few freely available
script-kiddie type hacking tools and was able to break into my network
in about 20 minutes. Now I run 128 bit WEP along with MAC adress
filtering and it's quite a bit more secure. At any given time I can
usually see 2-3 other wireless networks from my house, amazingly about
half of them have no encryption at all.