technick
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join:2000-12-16
Loganville, GA
| Stop Developing Faster Speeds
Ok.. I shouldn't have to type this, but apparently some bozo's think that faster speeds are going to be the answers for everything.
»Wi-Fi Raises New Questions
Speaking for a security aspect, wireless is not secure enough to let someone connect at 11 mbs, much less 100 mbs. I would much rather have someone spamming at 11 vs. 100 on a unsecure 802.11n network.
We need to ditch the speed jumps and concentrate on dynamic wep rekeying, and other various security methods of securing wifi, and making it affordable to secure home and private networks at a cost lower than buying a new car.
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verolom
join:2002-03-23
Eagleville, PA
 ·Comcast
| I disagree. If you want security, get wired. If you want speed and convenience, let the industry do its magic. Security is not a big deal to many of us, we just want speed!!!
I've had my wireless router open with no WEP and no MAC filters for almost a year now. I live in an apartment and no one has ever logged in to it yet.
Speed is good. Security? You'll never have it! |
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Unit649
I B U, Who U B?
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join:2000-01-22
Stockton, CA
·Comcast
| Agreed, mines been wide open because its simply easier for my friends if they come over to get onto my network than dealing with keys, etc. I have been logging for over 6 months and the only people who have connected are people who should be 
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wireless_bounce
@emhril.ameritech | "and the only people who have connected are people who should be"
... that you know of |
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Andy8
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join:2002-01-26
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| reply to verolom
said by verolom  :
I've had my wireless router open with no WEP and no MAC filters for almost a year now. I live in an apartment and no one has ever logged in to it yet.
Speed is good. Security? You'll never have it!
Being just a short jaunt down rt.35 away from me, what does the first person to accept your "invite" and successfully war-drive your 4800/930 connection and run a Kazaa server win?:D
*fires up the laptop*. j/k, but see my point?;)
Seriously, Being one who has a wireless LAN up and running, I still feel "naked" even though I have WEP and MAC filtering on.
Sure "speed is good" but 100mbps wireless LAN still will not get me a faster connection with my ISP.
I would also like to see it more secure first, before they start using those customers who absolutely HAVE to have the latest-greatest anything as beta-test guinea pigs.
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Unit649
I B U, Who U B?
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join:2000-01-22
Stockton, CA
·Comcast
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Sure, because I know when my friends visit, and I check my logs weekly.
I have learned to do this quite religiously, since I have linux boxes hosting websites that get probed constantly.
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The Folsom
Kindly Shut Your Noise Hole.
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join:2003-01-31
Yucaipa, CA
 ·Verizon FIOS
| reply to Unit649
said by Unit649 :
Agreed, mines been wide open because its simply easier for my friends if they come over to get onto my network than dealing with keys, etc. I have been logging for over 6 months and the only people who have connected are people who should be
I write the key for my(trusted) visitors and hand it to them on a piece of paper. When they have entered the key properly they are in the network and surfing happily along. Anyone who cannot properly input the key is excluded from my network.
Gotta have standards. 
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skyfreedomdo
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join:2003-01-01
Boise, ID | reply to verolom
Where do you live?:D |
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verolom
join:2002-03-23
Eagleville, PA
·Comcast
| reply to Andy8
Hey, if you find me and run a Kazaa server on my WLAN, that would make two of us Some people do use their WLANs for serious stuff, like moving huge divx files and streaming live video left and right. A miserable 802.11b running at an effective 1 Mbps frankly sux.
You can never have enough storage and enough throughput, it's a fact of the digital life |
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