Anyone wired for WiFi ?
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As was already pointed out - turn off broadcasting the SSID for the access point. But also consider (recommended) using WEP. Its not fantastic and stands for Wired Equivelant Privacy so it is designed to give you wired levels of confidentiallity. But it will hide and prevent all but the absolutely determined hacker from using your connection.
Not necessarily for privacy, but merely cos you are paying the bill and you dont want some other git from stealing your precious bandwidth.... there are also some legal issues here too, but to be honest hard to hold you too... WEP is free and comes with 99.99% of all WiFi products.
Not necessarily for privacy, but merely cos you are paying the bill and you dont want some other git from stealing your precious bandwidth.... there are also some legal issues here too, but to be honest hard to hold you too... WEP is free and comes with 99.99% of all WiFi products.
Mondo Dynamo said:
LOL, just think, you could do all of this automatically on Apple kit using Airport. No setting up, no hassle, just plug it in and off you go.
Not plug and pray like in dorky PC land.
You can do the same with the linksys kit, you would however be leaving yourself very exposed as I'm sure you would be using the apple stuff.
D.
Heh heh. Airport. What fun I had trying to make all that guff work securely. Horrific configuration tool unless you want to just plug and broacast to the World. It's actually all Avaya kit and the install and secure for Avaya WiFi into PC's is simpler by several orders of magnitude.
I've spent that past two days trying to fix the poxy G400 "Power" Macintosh here in the office after it proffered the most useful of all errors... :
"/pci@f2000000 / pci-bridge@d / mac-io@7 / ata-4@1f000 / @0:5,:tbxi"
...and decided it wouldn't work properly. I have done a full reinstall. What's with that software updater...? They need to take a leaf from Windows Update...!
After all that the bloody thing still doesn't work properly. It looks like a hardware issue. I check out the warranty and it's 12 months...! WTF...! Even Dells come with 3 years...! Pah, I gave up and slung it in the skip...
(BTW : I don't hate Apple's, I have a collection of older Mac's and they're fantastic)
Back to the WiFi stuff anyways, I'm looking at replacing my gear with their a Linksys or Netgear ADSL Modem/Router/Firewall/Wireless ROuter all-in-one doubrie at some point. Sub £150 will see you one.
Roop
>> Edited by roop on Tuesday 22 July 13:50
I've spent that past two days trying to fix the poxy G400 "Power" Macintosh here in the office after it proffered the most useful of all errors... :
"/pci@f2000000 / pci-bridge@d / mac-io@7 / ata-4@1f000 / @0:5,:tbxi"
...and decided it wouldn't work properly. I have done a full reinstall. What's with that software updater...? They need to take a leaf from Windows Update...!
After all that the bloody thing still doesn't work properly. It looks like a hardware issue. I check out the warranty and it's 12 months...! WTF...! Even Dells come with 3 years...! Pah, I gave up and slung it in the skip...
(BTW : I don't hate Apple's, I have a collection of older Mac's and they're fantastic)
Back to the WiFi stuff anyways, I'm looking at replacing my gear with their a Linksys or Netgear ADSL Modem/Router/Firewall/Wireless ROuter all-in-one doubrie at some point. Sub £150 will see you one.
Roop
Mondo Dynamo said:
LOL, just think, you could do all of this automatically on Apple kit using Airport. No setting up, no hassle, just plug it in and off you go.
Not plug and pray like in dorky PC land.
>> Edited by roop on Tuesday 22 July 13:50
roop,
Can I have the G4 out of the skip?
Apple was first, and basic setup is relatively easy. It hasn't developed much (although the config for secure was a couple straightforward 'tick' boxes for me, although I have an original airport, not the newer one, which may be more complicated). The PC side has (as always) followed and improved, while Apple stagnates a little.
Sparks
P.S You didn't really throw it in the skip did you?
Can I have the G4 out of the skip?
Apple was first, and basic setup is relatively easy. It hasn't developed much (although the config for secure was a couple straightforward 'tick' boxes for me, although I have an original airport, not the newer one, which may be more complicated). The PC side has (as always) followed and improved, while Apple stagnates a little.
Sparks
P.S You didn't really throw it in the skip did you?
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