quick...

Post by **dmmh** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:46 pm

whats the safest encryption for a wireless router? WEP or WPA?

Post by **PhoeniX** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:55 pm

Post by **PhoeniX** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:14 am

To clarify;

WEP can be cracked pretty easilly if you can sit around long enough whilst it is being cracked (Takes a few hours IIRC).

I use WEP at the moment (can't be bothered upgrading my firmware to support WPA

) with MAC filtering (this allows only my wirelss card to access my network) makes is quite safe.

Some guy up the road from me has an open connection; and he must know what he's doing as his download folder has Linux amonst other things, nevermind

Post by **dmmh** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:47 am

lol, I turned on my brand spanking new laptop and it immediately found 3 wireless networks, of which 2 were not protected.

gonna have to look into this shit, security is a very big concern to me. sofar, its rather confusing

Post by **Arkleseizure** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:51 am

I use WPA...KEP...I think...I'll have to look later.

Post by **dmmh** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:15 am

using WPA now, TKIP, thx all