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LibLabUK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 03:25 PM
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Securing your wireless network
This might be of some use to people.

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/security.ars">Wireless network security guide

Main points:

1. Turn off SSID broadcast on your wireless access points and set the SSID to something meaningless or random
2. Enable WEP encryption (if available use a rotating WEP key)
3. Restrict access by the MAC address of wireless adapters (MAC address filtering)
4. Restrict the number of IP addresses assigned by your DHCP server/router
5. Understand that wireless networking is never going to be 100% secure
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plcdude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:29 PM
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1. your link does not
work. So can I hide my ip address while logging on my neighbors wireless connection?
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LibLabUK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:43 PM
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3. Thanks.
"So can I hide my ip address while logging on my neighbors wireless connection"

No. If he knows where to look he'll see you logged on to his connection.
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LibLabUK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 04:37 PM
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2. Fixed the link:
Wireless network security guide
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LibLabUK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 05:26 AM
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4. Here's another guide
Wireless networking and security

This guide is more concise, and aimed a little bit more at the non-specialist it includes some easy-to-understand explanations, but it still covers roughly the same points as the Ars Technica article.
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