Setting Up a Router:

[Andrew Farris]

On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 16:14 -0500, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> It's worse than that... someone could use your bandwidth for something
> illegal, then comes the police taking all of your computer equipment and
> holding it until they can be sure that you did not post kiddie-porn or
> threats to officials, or any number of things.

Even if this DID happen, you'd have a helluvalot easier time convincing
somebody that it wasn't you doing it if you have an unencrypted
connection and somebody used it, as opposed to if you had a passworded,
encrypted, mac-filtered setup, and somebody still broke in, eh?

I just did away with the wireless in my home and set up a solid
hard-wired connection for every computer in the house, and then some...
Now I just wish I had a spare 'puter to set up between the switch and
the modem to act as a firewall, and a filter (the modem has it's own
firewall, but I'm not convinced of it's security...)

my .02

-- 
Andrew
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