Finally back on broadband at home( a measly 2m link) and I've spoiled myself - no more sitting at a desk

Been and bought a laptop and wireless router and hear I am now watching Live8 while writing this email

Was a breeze to setup and is working great.

And now it will make doing my it course a lot easier.

Now I can try and catch up on here

It was until a lightning bolt sent a surge up my router's ass and blew it up. :( Still, I've got a warranty replacement on the way.

It is nice though.... when you have a router.

NTL 2mb broadband, Dell Laptop, Net Gear wireless router - Loving it.

Demon soon to be 2mb broadband, wireless router, 2200xp athlon with wireless card, 1gig athlon with wireless and an old laptop with a wireless card knocking around somewhere. Moving to close proximity to my mums, mother-in-laws, and brothers soon so the wireless network will be in full effect when that happens, might have to build a few antennas though

Wireless - very handy indeed

Wireless - very handy indeed

yeah especially when your neighbour supplies the wireless and broadband for free

yeah especially when your neighbour supplies the wireless and broadband for free

Indeed ? - What a very careless neighbour,obviously unaware of WEP keys to secure there expensive broadband connection.

Wonder if they think there broadband is slow ??? :eek:

unaware of WEP keys

WEP keys wouldn't stop me!

WEP keys wouldn't stop me!

How easy is it to get round the security on a wireless network?

The reason is a few weeks ago the police turned up at my house to see if I had committed suicide, apparently someone with my IP posted on a forum that they wanted to go to sleep forever, blah, blah, blah.

I was a bit confused about this as it wasn't me or anyone in my house, I did have the wireless activated on my router and believed it to be secure, so either it wasn't as secure as I thought and a neighbour was using it, or Pipex made a mistake with the IP.

I have looked into WEP cracking and the like but couldn't find anything useful.

I don't think WEP keys are that secure - they are just there as another line of defense,anyone who was running a wireless network with senstive info would I suspect be using some form of hardware lock and a rolling passkey.

MAC address filtering - only allow certain client MACs. I know you can bypass it, but it stops those who aren't trying.

WEP encryption - yeah same again, but a little more tricky.

The higher the number of bits used for the key, the better though.

You'll never stop a determined person or one with the (in)appropriate toolkit, but then if someone hacked onto my wireless they wouldnt get very far - it is firewalled down unless I'm online, so unless the hacker is online at the same time with me, on the same MAC, with the correct WEP key, I'm feeling fairly safe

Fantastic isn't it,I put a wireless network in place at work for our sales team so they could access a web based customer follow-up database that we use, I also used a wireless print server so they could print letters and the like.

When I did this I named the network so it was identifiable and secured it with a wep code.

We've just changed our software that we use in work and this means they need wireless lan via our main server's hub.Our IT bod comes and puts the required equiptment in place and buggers off - and suprise it didnt work - he had not changed the name,not secured it in anyway and had not set the ip for the DHCP server !!

I didnt have the login to access it - so I call him back,now it works as he's entered the correct ip - but it's still not secured and still named default !!!