advantages of static ip over dhcp

Duouk2000 · 26 May 2006 at 00:15

From a security point of view is there any? Or is automatic dhcp enough?

Just want to make sure my wireless network is as safe as possible

Duouk2000 · 26 May 2006 at 00:29

Cheers guys, got wpa-psk set up along with everything else so i should be ok unless the old lady next door has some leet hacking skills or something

Duouk2000 · 26 May 2006 at 00:45

Got that as well, changed my static ip, changed the ssid name, disabled ssid broadcasting and changed my password (which i forgot 5 minutes later :rolleyes:

gona have to reset it next time i want to use it). I'd be using wpa2 but my psp can't seem to connect when i do so i'm using the earlier one for now.

Duouk2000 · 26 May 2006 at 11:24

Jez said:
I cant help but think that all this is incredibly OTT for a home connection. For one the range on WLAN's is so rubbish that hardly anyone is going to be able to see it, and secondly how many people even know how to connect to an unsecured network let alone an encrypted one.

I just use 64bit wep with everything else unrestricted, its enough for any random pc to not try and connect to it automatically.

Better safe than sorry, it's not like it took a long to set up or anything

Duouk2000 · 27 May 2006 at 08:11

Well, i figured i'd use every trick in the book but it seems i may not need to after all, thanks for the help chaps