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cwsmith68 · 06-07-04, 09:29 AM

When I first got my WiFi setup about a year and a half ago, I was living in a townhouse development. WiFi was still a little new then, but there was at least one other house that had it. I am pretty sure that it was a group of college students sharing a place. Anyway, their entire network was there for the browsing, including several gig of a porn collection. So I wrote an anonymous little paragraph about WiFi encryption and that it might be a good idea, and printed it…to their printer. I know they got the message, because they replied by renaming their SSID to some derogatory remark, but it was encrypted!

As a long time government employee, network security has been drilled into my head for years. While I may agree with your views about the Internet for the community, I certainly think my former neighbors weren’t being very smart.

Personally, I pay for the cable Internet access, and I want the bandwidth available when my family or I need it. I don’t feel the need to share that any more than I would let other people picnic in my front yard. I now live in a house, in a much higher traffic area (right next to a mall), so I don’t plan on giving any college student with a knack for hacking any reason to try to get into my stuff (no offense to college students in general, I was one once). I use WEP (I am running an 11b router, so that is the highest encryption I can use) and I use IP filtering both on the router and on a separate firewall on my PC.

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cwsmith68 Aximsite Minor League Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Dayton, OH Posts: 127 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	When I first got my WiFi setup about a year and a half ago, I was living in a townhouse development. WiFi was still a little new then, but there was at least one other house that had it. I am pretty sure that it was a group of college students sharing a place. Anyway, their entire network was there for the browsing, including several gig of a porn collection. So I wrote an anonymous little paragraph about WiFi encryption and that it might be a good idea, and printed it…to their printer. I know they got the message, because they replied by renaming their SSID to some derogatory remark, but it was encrypted! As a long time government employee, network security has been drilled into my head for years. While I may agree with your views about the Internet for the community, I certainly think my former neighbors weren’t being very smart. Personally, I pay for the cable Internet access, and I want the bandwidth available when my family or I need it. I don’t feel the need to share that any more than I would let other people picnic in my front yard. I now live in a house, in a much higher traffic area (right next to a mall), so I don’t plan on giving any college student with a knack for hacking any reason to try to get into my stuff (no offense to college students in general, I was one once). I use WEP (I am running an 11b router, so that is the highest encryption I can use) and I use IP filtering both on the router and on a separate firewall on my PC. __________________ Chris Axim X5 advanced TM 1180 wireless SanDisk 512Mb SD Lexar 256Mb CF "Time flies like an arrow...Fruitflies like a banana."