Re: wireless squatters

Why don't you bother with mac filtering?  Is there a flaw in it?

On Wednesday 18 May 2005 22:23, John Jolet wrote:
> 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
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