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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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Re: [General] Say good-bye to Free WiFi

said by Gbcue:

Free Wi-Fi is not going anywhere.

it has here. 5 years ago i had six open or WEP options.
4 disappeared and the two i can still see are WPA2

Stevester2
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said by dvd536:

said by Gbcue:

Free Wi-Fi is not going anywhere.

it has here. 5 years ago i had six open or WEP options.
4 disappeared and the two i can still see are WPA2

Those were NOT "free" WiFi but insecure connections, two completely different things.

Everyone should learn how to secure their wireless setup, or have someone do it for them.

In my neighborhood there used to be about a dozen open connections, now all of them are either hidden and/or locked down.

Selenia
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Fort Smith, AR

Selenia

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Some people are crazy. I notice an insecure AP signal that has pretty good strength at my house. Same SSID and MAC as one that used to be secured for ages. Why anyone would suddenly unsecure their AP after running it secured for a long period is beyond me!

thedragonmas
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said by Selenia:

Some people are crazy. I notice an insecure AP signal that has pretty good strength at my house. Same SSID and MAC as one that used to be secured for ages. Why anyone would suddenly unsecure their AP after running it secured for a long period is beyond me!

i ran mine unsecured for a while when i needed to troubleshoot why the heck i couldnt get a WII connected (after entering that key a dozen times with that wiimote ). after getting that little issue taken care of i placed it back secured (WPA2-PSK [AES]) . i can "see" about 5 wifi networks from my place all but one are secured.

dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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said by Selenia:

Some people are crazy. I notice an insecure AP signal that has pretty good strength at my house. Same SSID and MAC as one that used to be secured for ages. Why anyone would suddenly unsecure their AP after running it secured for a long period is beyond me!

They didn't have web interface disabled and got hacked because of a weak admin password?

Selenia
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Fort Smith, AR

Selenia

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I never enable web admin, even on my professional grade router, let alone consumer grade ones. I just don't trust it. That being said, I can still change settings remotely. I just login to my machine hosting my ssh tunnel, authenticated using a 4096-bit RSA key. Then just type the router's IP in the browser. Some routers don't even use ssl for this function. Using this way, it's encrypted with 256-bit AES with strong authentication, without running a service I don't already use for other things.

AVD
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said by Selenia:

Some people are crazy. I notice an insecure AP signal that has pretty good strength at my house. Same SSID and MAC as one that used to be secured for ages. Why anyone would suddenly unsecure their AP after running it secured for a long period is beyond me!

either the xbox won't work withthe encryption, or there was a power failure, or granny culdn't connect so the grandson just pulled the encryption.

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said by Selenia:

Why anyone would suddenly unsecure their AP after running it secured for a long period is beyond me!

I can just about guarantee they have no idea.