[jaws-uk] Re: Wireless Protection

Hi again Dave,

Typically, connections are shared at 50 to 1 or 100 to 1.

During week days, you will probably find that home connections run at a 
reasonable rate because many folk are at work and using their business 
connections but at weekends and during the evening, everyone goes home and 
checks their E-mails etc. on their home connection.

Regards,

Phil Medway

philmedway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Tel: 01869 347639

mobile: 07980 519990

Skype: philmedway


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ankers, Dave (UK)" <Dave.Ankers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 1:55 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Wireless Protection


Hi Chris,

Thank you very much for all the info, I is most appreciated.  Will look into 
it at home tonight.
Thanks

Dave

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

-----Original Message-----
From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ankers, Dave (UK)
Sent: 30 April 2007 12:44
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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