When my dad first went wireless he had some issues. some very nasty websites where being accessed the sort that would offend any normal person.

He contacted he supplier and changed the settings I think to the firewall which stopped it.

Been there with my laptop and I can use his wireless and the neighbours so it cant be that hard coz I'm a dunce with computers.

Well this thread finally convinced me I need to do something about my security on the wireless.

I have a main pc hardwired into the router but use this old laptop for wireless surfing, previously with a netgear router and netgear pcmcia card - the real problem is the card just won't work reliably with wpa (constantly drops connection:mad: ) so I'd been using wep 128.

Having read extensively about how insecure that is, and how easy it is to spoof mac addresses and find ssid I finally decided to blow