Setting Up a Router:

[Joseph]

Nathan Bahn wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com 
> <mailto:flyindragon1 at aol.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 16:14 -0500, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
>     > Colin Law wrote:
>     > > 2009/10/2 Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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
>
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>     Andrew
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> A.F.--
>
> I understand completely your distrust of WiFi security.  I have a 
> Westell 527W (a Verizon model, don't you know) and I FINALLY became 
> concerned enough to flash the firmware so that WPA2 (AES) -- as 
> opposed to WPA -- would become an option.  OK, so after I had done 
> that I noticed that on the browser's security pages that WEP was -- 
> get this -- RECOMMENDED OVER WPA!!!  There HAD to be a reason for such 
> stupidity and before dawn I found out what it was:  Verizon DOES 
> _*NOT*_ support WPA/WPA2.  Yes, that's correct -- Verizon support 
> staff are NOT *TRAINED _IN_ /the WPA/WPA2 procedures!/*  
> Unbelievable.  But then, they didn't tell me that BSSID and MAC 
> filtering were useless, so maybe I /*shouldn't*/ be surprised.
>
> --N.O.B.

I did set an Encryption.  After reading everything, I felt the WPA/WPA2 
was the best...   what do you all think?


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Joseph Snurr
Cotter, AR.

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