Re: wireless squatters
John Jolet <[email protected]>
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Personally, I use the weak, but nevertheless better-than-nothing 128-bit wep. Change the keys monthly. That router model, I believe also supports the much more robust wpa. Don't bother with the mac filtering (though it won't hurt), encrypt your space and require authentication. On Wednesday 18 May 2005 09:12 pm, philip dahlquist wrote: > This isn't a problem to be solved, but I was so taken aback today after > I found 3 wireless squatters using my wireless router that I had to tell > somebody. I guess you guys are it. I figured since I'm in the basement > of a Victorian row house in Washington, D.C., that there weren't too > many other people with wireless connections in my neighborhood, but I > guess my Linksys router is a lot more powerful than my old Netgear one. > Those dual antennas on it must have turned it into Peterbilt semi router > on a wireless highway. Those bozo(e)'s were slurping up some of my > 3Mbps DSL bandwidth. At $39.95 a month it wasn't gonna happen, so I > decided to MAC slap 'em by filling out my router MAC address allow list. > I guess those things are in there for a reason. > > Anybody else had this happen to them? Maybe I should pimp out my router > for use when I'm not using it. Just wrap it in Spandex and set it on a > thigh high spike heel boot, get myself a red felt hat with a feather > in it and go to the bad side of town. Actually, there is no bad *side* > of DC, it's ugly all over. > > There are as many pages of escort services in the DC Yellow pages as > there are pages of lawyers, not that I've called that many of them, > lawyers I mean. It's called compassionate conservatism. > > Anybody figure out a solution to my printing question or have a Linksys > WRT54G router? > > Filling long spans of weirdness with tidbits of boredom, > PD > _______________________________________________ > Linux-wlan-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linux-wlan.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-wlan-user -- John Jolet Technology Solutions Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [email protected]