This is assuming that someone is interested in your network in the first place.?
I have about 5 wireless networks in my cul-de-sac, obviously mine has the strongest signal for me, but even if next door had a stronger signal, I have no interest in surfing on his network or even seeing what is on there.
A few years back some Spanish idiot tried hacking into my computer. Plenty try and I just accept it, but this guy just got me teed off at that time, so I turned the tables on him. Now normally these hackers are well protected themselves, but this guy left himself open slightly so I took advantage of that and took a huge word document on his computer, copied the first half that was in Spanish, translated it to German and pasted it back in its place. Then just saved the document back to his hard disk.
I would have loved to have seen his face when he next opened that document.
FWIW I run WEP as my Omnifi music streamers need it to stream music around the house.
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Originally Posted by CoguarSpirit  In answer to your question BLACKPANTHER, and as I've just set up wireless here, the best encryption method to use is WPA-TKIP, though any WPA encryption your router and clients support is better than WEP.
<geek> wep encryption can be broken in literally 30seconds with a few command lines. WPA encryption requires brute force with the use of a list of words or dictionary. This not only takes a long time (days of processing), but also relies on your password being in a word-list. A password with small-case, upper-case, numbers and symbols is pretty much secure.</geek> |