wireless network

[Dan gelb]

Morning all well just got wireless working and is great.I am sitting on pation now

CompUSA has or had a sale for 4port switch ,fire wall,wireless the whole thing 59 with 60 in rebates and the town im in offers free wireless ibternet but im out of range from home for now.

 

[Phill R]

just remember to secure your wireless connection so that no-one close can access your home network. In my nieghborhood there are two other wireless networks from close houses that are unsecured and anyone in range could connect to. I secured mine by enabling WPA which uses a simple password to prevent access. The firewall will only protect you from the internet. Also, if you ever connect to a public wireless connection, don't enable file sharing on your hard drive.

 

[Dan gelb]

thanks already secured site during install and i have run Net Stumbler and have found one Ap about 3 blocks away and 2 neighbors have laptops i know of but no wireless card

 

[Gerald Pierce]

I put a wireless card in my son's desktop (in the FROG so his antenna is higher than my laptop) and discovered 3 other WAP's around my house besides mine.... none were secured but mine. I could access each and everyone..... perhaps I'll turn my broadband off?





Anyhow.... isn't wireless great? I can go sit on the patio and surf, go to the bedroom, connect from my camper at the campground, all kinds of stuff.