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Just got myself Netgear 834 G and i'm up and running on a wireless connection
with my friend accros the road. What is the simple way to secure connection
so the other "firends" don't use my bandwith ? Thanks a lot.
 
if you have an option on the router, disable broadcasting ie. invisible mode so that other users cant scan to detect ur SSID.

Overall thats best practice for starters..
 
Configure a WEP key, this way if anyone does get hold of your SSID, they would have to know your WEP key before they can attach to your router.
 
The length of the key makes no difference to the speed. And with most devices enabling encryption doesn't have that much of an overhead since it's done in hardware.
 
Or just enable MAC authentication.
If you really want to get carried away, find out if the device supports 802.1x and go that route (more trouble than its worth tho)
WPA is probably the easiest and most secure, considering that I could crack a WEP key in 20 minutes if I had sniffed 100000 encrypted packets from your network.
 
Disabling SSID and using mac filtering are both a waste of time. Wardriving software will still see the access point and can easily use the MAC of your real friend to get in. So, you are just making life harder for yourself. WEP is also mostly a waste of time. Use WPA with a password of at least 30 characters. I was able to set up WPA in 2 minutes.
 
Thanks for your replys.Now i have stupid question.If i disable broadcasting ( i have that option),how will my friend see my AP ?
 
gkm said:
Disabling SSID and using mac filtering are both a waste of time. Wardriving software will still see the access point and can easily use the MAC of your real friend to get in. So, you are just making life harder for yourself. WEP is also mostly a waste of time. Use WPA with a password of at least 30 characters. I was able to set up WPA in 2 minutes.
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Now for someone to actually want to hack into a router, they either want free internet access really really badly, or they have way too much time on thier hands.
 
digital said:
Thanks for your replys.Now i have stupid question.If i disable broadcasting ( i have that option),how will my friend see my AP ?
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He does not have to see SSID to connect, you can add the SSID info in manually.

OR

You can broadcast the SSID, connect his machine to your network, then disable broadcasting, his connection won't drop.
 
buster said:
Now for someone to actually want to hack into a router, they either want free internet access really really badly, or they have way too much time on thier hands.
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that doesnt mean letting it happen is a good idea.

Enable WPA, its the only way to go. MAC addresses are very easy to spoof, and getting ARP poisioned isnt fun either.
 
Karnaugh said:
that doesnt mean letting it happen is a good idea.

Enable WPA, its the only way to go. MAC addresses are very easy to spoof, and getting ARP poisioned isnt fun either.
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Agreed, and thanks for the good tips ... I am going to change mine to WPA right now, and keep it that way once I get to SA, don't want any of those crazy South Africans hacking into my router and borrowing my bandwidth (JK) ;) :D.
 
My turn for a dump question ... my router has WPA Pre-shared key with a TKIP and AES Algorithm, and WPA Radius - which is better?
 
Do not disable SSID broadcast. You just make more work for yourself. Kismet et al still sees the AP. Just use WPA only with a loooong password. For the moment that should keep everybody out.

Buster, internet access here in SA is expensive enough to make hacking in worth it. Also, if somebody does something seriously illegal via one's AP, the police might kick one's door down in the middle of the night, which would not be fun. Best to be safe.
 
Radius is better if you have a Radius server. But the pre-shared key option is just as good as far as I know as long as you use a long password.
 
Please ,help some not very bright people.

On my Netgear 834 G router i go into Wireless settings and in security options
i choose WPA-PSK (Wi-Fi Protected Access Pre-Shared Key).Then in
Network Key (8 ~ 64 characters) i enter 10 digit key just to try.Press apply.Done on my computer. Now on my friends laptop in View available wireless networks i can see Available networks - NETGEAR which i suppose is my router,but when i try to connect,it does not. In My friends
computer under wireless Network Connection properties i have Netgear under
prefered networks and under available networks.Then in Netgear properties
under prefered networks i have a tick in Network authentication box and i put
10 digit key from the main computer. What i'm doing wrong? Thank you for your help.
 
digital said:
Please ,help some not very bright people.

On my Netgear 834 G router i go into Wireless settings and in security options
i choose WPA-PSK (Wi-Fi Protected Access Pre-Shared Key).Then in
Network Key (8 ~ 64 characters) i enter 10 digit key just to try.Press apply.Done on my computer. Now on my friends laptop in View available wireless networks i can see Available networks - NETGEAR which i suppose is my router,but when i try to connect,it does not. In My friends
computer under wireless Network Connection properties i have Netgear under
prefered networks and under available networks.Then in Netgear properties
under prefered networks i have a tick in Network authentication box and i put
10 digit key from the main computer. What i'm doing wrong? Thank you for your help.
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You probably have thought about this already ... but make sure you are connecting your buddies computer using WPA authentication, and not WEP, that is all I can think of right now.
 
......Well,.......where exactly do i find WPA authentication box to tick ?
 
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