Setting Up a Router:

[Wade Smart]

Colin Law wrote:
> 2009/10/2 Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com>:
>> Colin Law wrote:
>>> 2009/10/2 Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com>:
>>>> Do NOT setup mac filtering or encryption until you have your computers
>>>> working.
>>> But _do_ set up encryption after you have it working or your
>>> neighbours and passers by will steal your bandwidth.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>> Or just filter on your mac.
>> Yea. I know, mac's can be cloned and changed but, they have to have YOUR
>> mac for your computer. Enc slows down your transmission speed so for in
>> home stuff, mac filtering I find to be better.
>>
> 
> If you filter on the mac address without encryption is it not still
> possible to snoop on what you are doing?  Monitoring your emails as
> you send and receive them, watching which websites you visit and so
> on.
> 
> Colin
> 

Sure someone can... but not just anyone.. not your average individual.

Wade

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