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Wireless networking

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:02 am
by scot-canuck
For any of you using wireless networking for business and able to switch from WPA to WPA2 encryption, then it might be a good time to do so.
Reason WPA is now attackable, however to do it you have to be relatively close to the access point so shouldnt be much risk in a home environment.

WPA2 is the successor to WPA and uses a different form of encryption which hasn't been cracked and currently isn't expected to be cracked.

Link : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/28/wpa_60sec/

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:10 am
by Foggy

Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:41 am
by rs232
I would advice everybody to enable mac filtering together with WPA encryption; still.
It's a pain in the neck to setup but once up and running it's rather secure.

If you want to give it a go, allow your your devices to connect. From your router administration page you should see the MAC address of the devices, if so copy+paste them into the mac filtering section of the router allowing only the specified one. if not run:

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ipconfig /all
on each pc/laptop connecting via wireless and get the mac address of the wireless NIC only.

my 2 cents
rs232