[jaws-uk] Re: Wireless Protection


On 30 Apr 2007, at 14:02, Mullins, Chris wrote:


Dave
It's as secure as anything else you're likely to come across in the market place. Here is some info I found on a web site:
You can connect to your Home Hub to check status and alter settings via your PC's web browser - Go to 
http://bthomehub.home/
. To get access to all of the areas of the Homehub settings, note you'll need to log on as 'Admin' - by default you're logged on as a 'Basic' user. You'll also need to select 'Advanced' to get to see all of the options. Admin users will find the following sections: 

Configuration: Contains the following:

list of 8 items
* Wireless - Set up the Hub's wireless settings : SSID , speed, channel, encryption (WEP, WPA-PSK or WPA) 
* Telephony - BT Broadband Talk settings
* Internet - Info on your Internet connectivity. This includes your username and password - note that be default this is "bthomehub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" (with no password) - these details aren't actually needed as authentication is done using your phone number * IP Addresses - Here you can enable/disable DHCP, define a DHCP pool, and set the Hub's IP addresses and subnet mask. 
* Devices - Shows the status of connected devices
* Application sharing - Allows you to assign port mappings (translation of incoming packets for a port range, to a local port range). 
More
* Firewall - Allows you to select levels of protection
* Dynamic DNS - Allows you to use a service such as DYNDNS so that machines outside your network can get your IP address 
list end
System: Allows a reset, restart, and the option to set the Home Hub to get the time automatically (Enter up to 5 NTP servers). Also has the 'Remote assistance 
option to allow BT Support to connect in
Status: Info and access to a access to a number of event logs, including a call log and intrusion detection log  

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Sent: 30 April 2007 12:44
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Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Wireless Protection


So does anyone know just how secure the BT home hub is?

Dave
Download speeds vary according to how many users are online at any time. Unless you run an open network with no encyption your neighbours are unlikely to be using your bandwidth. Those who are signed up with an 8MB service are on a sticky wicket to start with because the speed you will actually get will be somewhat less depending on distance. That sort of speed and some distances involved push copper wire to it's limit. The next five to seven years may see the rollout of something with more capacity being laid up to your door, but that is a big investment yet to be made.
You should be using some form of wireless encryption and these days you don't really want it to be WEP as it is now possible to crack WEP encryption in three minutes or less. Anyone running WEP now becomes a target as hacking kits get produced and distributed on the net. If your wireless adaptors support it use WPA pre shared key with a really long and random key which for practical purposes is currently almost uncrackable in any reasonable sense of the word.
As most neighbours are not usually particularly computer savvy even using MAC address filtering will stop most from straying onto your wi-fi unless they know that MAC addresses can be falsified and know how to do it. However, wireless encryption is what you really should have. 

Regards.

Tristram Llewellyn
Sight and Sound Technology
Technical Support
www.sightandsound.co.uk


        ----- Original Message -----
        From: Ankers, Dave (UK) <mailto:Dave.Ankers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
        To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 12:32 PM
        Subject: [jaws-uk] Wireless Protection


        Hi all,
        
        I have seen some posts concerning wireless protection on wi fi etc I
currently use a BT home hub with my main pc wired to it and my wife uses 
        her works laptop pc wirelessly.  In the last few weeks, the internet
download speed has seriously reduced and I have had concerns about the security of my system. Could someone be using my connection and causing the slow connection? My wife had to load a security code onto a memory stick and transfer it onto her pc in order to connect to the hub. Has 
        anyone else noticed a general slowing down of broadband connection
        speeds?
        Thanks in advance.
        
        Dave
        
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