KeepItReal
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Sat Oct-18-03 03:35 AM
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Just made my place WiFi...ask me anything! |
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...er except what the hell was I doing hooking all that stuff up on a Friday night! :-)
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Sat Oct-18-03 03:46 AM
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I'm tired of being on the road and drinking Starbucks Coffee.
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Sat Oct-18-03 03:48 AM
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Sat Oct-18-03 03:57 AM
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But I have enough to where I can stay there for a while and visit relatives en-route. Never mind the Cub's games....
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Sat Oct-18-03 03:46 AM
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tell me how do you deal with security, I mean I know about passwords and changing frequencies but
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Sat Oct-18-03 03:51 AM
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5. You can do a couple of things... |
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Have your wireless router *not* broadcast its ID (SSID) and you can turn on encryption (WEP)...
That's about as secure as I can make it right now.
My little network couldn't be easily accessed. My neigbor on the other hand...
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Sat Oct-18-03 04:46 PM
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10. You should also filter MAC addresses. |
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Every Ethernet device has a unique-in-all-the-world 48-bit address called its MAC (Media Access Control) address. So every WiFi card that you stick into your laptops has one of these unique MAC addresses. They're usually formatted to look something like this:
01:02:03:7F:F9:AB
You can set up your WiFi router so that it only allows connections from the actual Mac addresses that are used by the few WiFi cards that you're actually using. This mostly prevents other WiFi cards from connecting to your Internet router.
(It's not bullet-proof; there is such a thing as "MAC Spoofing" where someone "hears" one of your WiFi cards broadcasting its MAC address and they then start using YOUR MAC address, but that takes a pretty-sophisticated hacker. Your J-Random "War Driver" isn't going to bother, even if they know how.)
We use MAC address filtering on our home WiFi network; you should too.
NOTE: The "MAC address" has nothing to do with Apple Macintoshes, except that Macs use MAC addresses too.
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Sat Oct-18-03 03:46 AM
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3. WiFi what the fuck is WiFi? |
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Sat Oct-18-03 03:53 AM
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6. It's a wireless local area network... |
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I can surf the net at DSL speeds from any room in my place with no cables. Got my MAC and laptop connected wirelessly. Pretty sweet.
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Sat Oct-18-03 03:53 AM
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Sat Oct-18-03 04:11 AM
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9. Better With A PC 802.11B Card In Your Notebook |
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And roaming the events in a place like Wrigley Field in Chicago during Game 6.
You can always stay connected (around Loyla University and Northwest Hospital) but you can't always disconnect from your emotions when a bone-head opts to become the 2003 "goat" and earn a place in the Cub's history.
Grrrrrrrrrr.
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Sat Oct-18-03 04:48 PM
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11. It stands for "Wireless Fidelity". |
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They trying to say that it has all the fidelity of a wired Ethernet connection. It's marketing, but WiFi actually is extremely cool.
I'm using it right now.
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