Hi, Guest
04-06-2006, 10:53 PM
WEP is ridiculously easy to crack, turning off SSID, enabling WEP and mac filtering are hurdles, not barriers to hackers.
The great thing is that there are so many unsecured networks, there's really no reason for people to stop and try to get into mine, and considering that I have older hardware, WEP seems to be fine. My biggest issue are other people overlapping my channels. most of them are college kids that move in and out of the appartment building... which is also confusing... my old 802.11b router in the 'office' can't even get through the wall into the living room (hence why I have 2)... but I can get 4 or 5 networks from other people.
I was tempted to get 802.11a just for wall penetration and network individuality.
The great thing is that there are so many unsecured networks, there's really no reason for people to stop and try to get into mine, and considering that I have older hardware, WEP seems to be fine. My biggest issue are other people overlapping my channels. most of them are college kids that move in and out of the appartment building... which is also confusing... my old 802.11b router in the 'office' can't even get through the wall into the living room (hence why I have 2)... but I can get 4 or 5 networks from other people.
I was tempted to get 802.11a just for wall penetration and network individuality.
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