<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Andrew Farris <<a href="mailto:flyindragon1@aol.com">flyindragon1@aol.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 16:14 -0500, Kenneth Loafman wrote: > Colin Law wrote: > > 2009/10/2 Wade Smart <<a href="mailto:wadesmart@gmail.com">wadesmart@gmail.com</a>>: > >> 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. </div>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 _____________________________ Registered Linux User: 473690 Registered Ubuntu User: 22747 <div><div></div><div class="h5"> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> 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.