David Nebenzahl wrote:
Don Bowey spake thus:
On 2/1/06 8:22 AM, in article
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"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.
So just how hard is it for a determined hacker to get past those
barriers? Anyone know for sure (no speculation, pleeze)?
As I stated in another post, pretty easy.
Use 128 bit encryption, enable MAC filtering, and turn *off* SSID
broadcast on the router, that will make it very unlikely for someone to
stumble upon your network, though you will have to manually supply the
SSID and the key to each client machine you use and the MAC address of
each client to the router.