Wireless Security

Pablo72 · 21 Nov 2006 at 12:39

I'm a home user, who seldom uses the internet, except maybe for the occassional downloading of a game patch, a bbit of retail therapy and looking on this forum. As such my system is never constantly connected to the net.

I have a wireless router and was just wondering how important is is to use WPA security rather that WEP on the router.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks again

Pablo72 · 21 Nov 2006 at 14:28

Anyone?

Pablo72 · 21 Nov 2006 at 15:02

J.B said:
WEP isnt great WPA is the way, also use MAC filtering, if you really want disable SSID.

Not to be rude but why would you not encrypt it? if you leave your front door open and then put a sign up on it saying 'Im open' would you expect to have your tele when you got home?

Also your paying for an ISP service which anyone else nearby can use for free!

so if i carry on i could ramble all day, in answer, yes encrypt it (at the very least)

My question was which one is better WEP or WPA... not whether I should bother using any form of encryption! But thanks anyway... I think!

And at no point in my original message did I even suggest that I use no encryption.

Pablo72 · 21 Nov 2006 at 15:41

Sorry to ask, but why exactly is WEP no good? I'm not doubting it, just curious?

Pablo72 · 21 Nov 2006 at 16:21

Phnom_Penh said:
It's pretty easy to crack, although WPA is not that much harder (That article's a year old now, cracking has moved on a lot). Encryption like WPA2/TKIP/AES etc is the way forward .

But for a home user is this really needed? I don't mean security in general, but rather such a strong security system. Would your average PC user honestly know how to crack a 128 bit WEP?

Or is it really that simple to hack into my 2 gig a month broadband account?