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Old 12-31-2004, 04:46 PM   #14
foff667
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Originally Posted by garretwp
Bill, If you have the option to use anything other then wep than go that route. Wep was suppose to be secure and be hard to hack into the wireless network when it is activated. But us geeks have easy access to tools that can translate the encrypted packets over the air and then desiffer them into the key that will give us access into your network. But than again you should have no worries of anyone wanting to hack intoy our wirelss network as its no government facility. unless someone wants access to your HUGE porn collection you got going. But to set up wep is easy and set up 128bit encryption. Also disable broadcasting of ssid. And if you really want to get technical you can also set up mac filtering which only allows the network cards with there mac address to access your network.

Garrett
most of that is on cd so your only talkin 10 gig or so taking up my hd i still need to get one of u guru's over here to help me get it setup...the instructions are lacking...i think i got the security right and i can transfer stuff and get internet but id still like to make sure there are no loss ends.
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