Simba7
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT
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March 24th, @01:53PM
| Stupidity...
This is just plainly stupid..
I keep 2 "Access Points" here. One is secure, the WiFi 11g card in my router using WPA, and one isn't (some generic 11b bridge I found for a couple bucks that's hooked up to an EtherLink III ISA Card in my router).
I have open access on the unsecure access point, but it's for internet only (speed throttled down to 128kbps), absolutely NO access to my internal network.
The secure one is full speed and uses WPA encryption with MAC blocking. That has completely open access to our internal network and the internet.
I don't have a problem with people using my internet. Heck, when we first moved here, we had NOTHING. I was grateful to be able to use someone elses internet temporarily while we were waiting for ours to get setup.
To show we were grateful, we placed an 11b (unsecure) bridge in front of our house so everyone has access to it.
I, personally, think this bill is BS. If you don't want people to get into your network, secure it. You can even use WEP encryption at the minimum.
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Bresnan 15M/1M | My Computer (P4 1.8GHz, 3GB RAM, 80+160GB HDDs, Vista) | Wife's Computer (Duron 2.15GHz, 1GB RAM, 40GB HDD, Vista) | Router (P2 450MHz, 224MB RAM, 40GB HDD, AT-2560FX, 2x DE504, Atheros AR5212, DGE-500T, EtherLink III running Gentoo) |
