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the Mem Sah'b has just alerted me to another network nearby when operating her iBookG4. My Powerbook detects nothing, other than our network, but we were wondering how to password protect out airPort so that someone can't piggyback it for nothing and all the grief that then ensues.
All suugestions gratefully received.
Pilgrim
All suugestions gratefully received.
Pilgrim
What flavour of Airport do you have?
It's basically all the same whatever flavour, you just need to set a password and security protocol (WEP / WPA Personal etc) after pressing the 'change wireless security' button you'll see after accessing the basestation with 'Airport Admin Utility'.
You can also turn off broadcasting your SSID so that it doesn't appear in other peoples wireless lists and I find it;s also handy to set up an access list of your MAC addresses within the basestation.
It the information and walk throughs are available in the 'help' section of Airport Admin Utility.
Kelvin
It's basically all the same whatever flavour, you just need to set a password and security protocol (WEP / WPA Personal etc) after pressing the 'change wireless security' button you'll see after accessing the basestation with 'Airport Admin Utility'.
You can also turn off broadcasting your SSID so that it doesn't appear in other peoples wireless lists and I find it;s also handy to set up an access list of your MAC addresses within the basestation.
It the information and walk throughs are available in the 'help' section of Airport Admin Utility.
Kelvin
Mr Beckerman said:
jamesuk28 said:
If you are running WEP (wired equivalent protection) with an encrypted key you should be ok.
Unless someone with a Pringles can and netstumbler or similar turns up
Best to use WPA if available. If someone can crack WEP then they can crack WPA unless it's radius, which very few home networks are.
The Pen Test guys I used to work with could do either with a bit of time. mac address filtering & IP range restriction slowed them down a bit more, while hiding SSID did nothing to someone wanting to get in.
These guys are the sort that have radius servers at home for those moments that they dont want to use the wired networks though. They are very
Yes, we have one of those at work (the geek, has his own patch panels in his bedroom etc etc)
Agreed, WPA is just as crackable as WEP, but anything you can put in that gives a placebo effect is a good thing to most users who don't deal with this crap and it's issues every day (blimey, I really must get a new job and stop being so ambivalent about IT!) so that they don't worry themselves to death over t'internet security but do have an effective level of protection (to a certain extent)
Maybe Trev and Simon were right, when they said;
[quote=Trev & Simon]Stay in your homes![/quote]
Agreed, WPA is just as crackable as WEP, but anything you can put in that gives a placebo effect is a good thing to most users who don't deal with this crap and it's issues every day (blimey, I really must get a new job and stop being so ambivalent about IT!) so that they don't worry themselves to death over t'internet security but do have an effective level of protection (to a certain extent)
Maybe Trev and Simon were right, when they said;
[quote=Trev & Simon]Stay in your homes![/quote]
Edited by Mr Beckerman on Saturday 31st March 09:52
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