Wireless Security - What do you use?

Yas786 · 24 Aug 2006 at 14:20

Snow-Munki said:
but isn't it fairly easy to clone someone's mac address ?

Dont know, never had it happen to me in the past 2 yrs ive been running my wireless network at home. They cant clone it unless they know what it is...

tolien · 24 Aug 2006 at 15:14

Snow-Munki said:
but isn't it fairly easy to clone someone's mac address ?

Yep. Pretty simple to find a MAC if there's no encryption.

Deathwish · 24 Aug 2006 at 15:50

Security? Whats that

Fully open here, tho it would be very easy to spot the idiot "hacking" in as im surrounded by fields for miles and miles

Kol · 24 Aug 2006 at 15:57

WPA-PSK (TKIP), mac filtering and SSID turned off. My router with DD-WRT offers me plenty of options, but I can't be bothered figuring most of them out.

BenST · 24 Aug 2006 at 21:13

Mikol said:
WPA-PSK (TKIP), mac filtering and SSID turned off. My router with DD-WRT offers me plenty of options, but I can't be bothered figuring most of them out.

Same configuration and same router

My key is 29 characters long.

GuruJockStrap · 24 Aug 2006 at 23:08

Pah! 29 characters long? Try this as an example:

LLJV,JGakKZy,yPjgeBwlL07s%!B$&sCH1iFJyp%9Ds728pil#TMCdS%WH6NDxa

garyh · 24 Aug 2006 at 23:30

WPA2 with SSID off here; the key is so long and random even I don't remember it

bigredshark · 24 Aug 2006 at 23:33

no security, no mac filtering, just a nice traffic shape restricting that port on the router to 1mb to WAN and the requirement of VPN to talk to any LAN devices. does the job, i use wired whenever possible though.

Seft · 25 Aug 2006 at 09:17

mac filtering. I know who all my neighbours are, and I'm pretty confidnent they would all think mac cloning was something to do with raincoats or something

(that and Winchester isn't really the wardriving capital of the world.

smids · 28 Aug 2006 at 00:47

WPA2 - 12 digit password
SSID On (sister's WLAN card won't work with no SSID for some reason)
No MAC filtering (yet)

I feel I'm pretty secure behind the WPA2 though. I think Guru is right, so far it has proven uncrackable but I'm sure that will eventually change but until then...

All the computers in my house, bar my parent's one are connected wirelessly (which is about 5 inc. laptops) so for me security really is an issue and I try to keep on top of it.

I'm going to try and get the SSID off and have aquick fiddle now though.

agw_01 · 28 Aug 2006 at 00:48

128-bit WEP (our router doesn't support WPA :rolleyes:

) but with MAC filtering.