Re: wireless router password security

"Kyle T. Jones" <Email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Sebastian G. wrote:
Kyle T. Jones wrote:


http://www.howtodothings.com/computers-internet/how-to-protect-a-linksy
s-wrt54g-router-using-wap-and-wep



But please omit the step where disabling SSID broadcast. It doesn't
change anything about the security, doesn't make your network invisible
at all, but
surely creates a lot of trouble with your client accidentially trying
to connect to someone else's network.


Good point.

I don't follow the logic. Disabling SSID makes it more difficult for
someone to connect to my wireless router (WEP turned on also).
They will have to wait until I have a connection in progress and sniff that
to find the router's SSID. During the times when there is nothing
connected, the SSID is not broadcast, so they can't WAR DRIVE by my house
when I am not there and try to bust in.

Also, my laptop, doesn't try to 'accidental' connect to other networks.
It needs to know the SSID for my wireless router in order to establish
connection.
I don't tell my laptop wireless card to connect to any available access
point, so it isn't going to connect to anything unless I tell it to do so.

Clearly, there are things about wireless that I don't yet understand.
Perhaps someone can explain more clearly.





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bz

please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an
infinite set.

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