Insecure Network

Post by **corpse** » Mon May 30, 2005 3:09 am

Man, I got another buddy who just bought a router and hooked up his laptop. Its got XP Home. In network settings, it shows that the wireless connection is not secure. His XP firewall is on and he also has a router. Is this anything to worry about.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon May 30, 2005 4:23 am

corpse wrote:Man, I got another buddy who just bought a router and hooked up his laptop. Its got XP Home. In network settings, it shows that the wireless connection is not secure. His XP firewall is on and he also has a router. Is this anything to worry about.

he needs to set up at the VERY least WEP encryption and MAC filtering.

check this

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue May 31, 2005 5:13 am

HELLO?

Post by **corpse** » Tue May 31, 2005 5:23 am

This would be done through the router settings right?

It is a Linksys router

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue May 31, 2005 5:36 am

yep. iirc, type 192.168.1.1 and have the username / password handy.

Post by **PieceMaker** » Tue May 31, 2005 5:42 am

The following link might help you out for info:

Wireless Security—Four Steps You Need to Take

I found the above link when I was looking up some info for you
here :icon10:Network Security

They have quite a bit of info for you on the linksys routers.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue May 31, 2005 5:44 am

there should be five steps. they missed one.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Tue May 31, 2005 6:40 am

i disable ssid, and enable mac addy.. thats all

i have the SSID as default, Enable mac addy, Then add the mac adress's. then Change the ssid, and manually join the computers around the house. this way i dont need to deal with WEP, it knocked down my signal on one of my pc's to ~5-10% from 30%.. this i couldent have.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue May 31, 2005 9:48 am

AmIdYfReAk wrote: it knocked down my signal on one of my pc's to ~5-10% from 30%.. this i couldent have.

then your router sucks.

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