Setting Up a Router:

[Karl F. Larsen]

Joseph wrote:
> 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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>>
>> 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?
> 
> 
	I used a straight password. It is simple because it is not 
very important. This stopped all accidental use of my Internet 
by others.


73 Karl


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