[access-uk] Re: A NETWORKING QUESTION
- From: "Dj Paddy" <mygroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 11:57:11 -0000
I'd just like to further advocate Tris's point on mac address filtering.
For those that dont' know.
Your Mac address is a hardware seriel number. Each networking hardware
component will have one, ethernet card, wifi card, router, access point,
repeater etc.
You can find the mac address for each of your components by going to command
prompt and typing,
ipconfig/all
Copy down the mac address and on your routers setup screns enable mac
filtering.
I'm quite anal about security and would apply this even if I was using
another wireless security algorithm than WEP. But if you can only use WEP
I'd say this is essential. WEP, can be hacked and there are tutorials
online showing you how to do so.
Barry
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tris-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:46 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: A NETWORKING QUESTION
Yes, assuming you have a wireless ADSL or DSL router then WEP or WPA
encyrption for the connection is a good idea. Also some routers can limit
incoming connections to machines that only have known MAC addresses. I use
this particularly at home where I can only use WEP because not all adaptors
(especially those a few years old) support WPA.
Regards.
Tristram Llewellyn
Sight and Sound Technology
Technical Support
www.sightandsound.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: Carol Pearson
To: Access UK Mailing List
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:28 PM
Subject: [access-uk] A NETWORKING QUESTION
Hi all,
I want to start setting up my home network and need to do some transfer of
files, putting in virus checker etc before going out on the NET. I'm
going
to be using a wireless connection for my laptop and want to know if
there's
anything I can do to ensure that the two computers can speak to one
another
but the laptop can't be seen by or go out to the big wide world - until I
say so!
Any advice would be most welcome, on or off list.
Thanks.
--
Carol
carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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