Wireless Security Survey

[The_Techie]

Good point. Would you say it's worth it to set my SSID to hidden then?

 

[Globetrotter]

WPA-PSK, 63 key (max)
MAC filtering
SSID hidden
firewall

Beanie, if you use Windows (and therefore the Wireless Zero Configuration service) to manage your wireless connection, then I won't hide the SSID. WZC sometimes creates problems if the SSID is disabled. It may frequently try and connect to the closest other SSID and that can mess with your connection since it's constantly searching for SSIDs. I hide my SSID but I use the wireless adapter's software to manage the wireless connections, not Windows. So I have WZC service disabled.

Bedtime reading: Confronting WZC

Hidden SSID's can easily be sniffed by hackers anyway. Proggies like Airmagnet and Airjack take care of that but it always helps if you don't advertise your AP.

 

[The_Techie]

WPA-PSK, 63 key (max)
MAC filtering
SSID hidden
firewall

Beanie, if you use Windows (and therefore the Wireless Zero Configuration service) to manage your wireless connection, then I won't hide the SSID. WZC sometimes creates problems if the SSID is disabled. It may frequently try and connect to the closest other SSID and that can mess with your connection since it's constantly searching for SSIDs. I hide my SSID but I use the wireless adapter's software to manage the wireless connections, not Windows. So I have WZC service disabled.

Bedtime reading: Confronting WZC

Hidden SSID's can easily be sniffed by hackers anyway. Proggies like Airmagnet and Airjack take care of that but it always helps if you don't advertise your AP.

Thanks, I'll read that this afternoon.

I've heard a lot about the WZC and hidden SSIDs and it seems to me there is a need for one of Microsoft's hurried patches to fix this...

 

[Claymore]

Hidden SSID's can easily be sniffed by hackers anyway. Proggies like Airmagnet and Airjack take care of that but it always helps if you don't advertise your AP.

I was reading an article on wireless security the other day, and it was saying that hidden SSIDs are worse than useless, apparently.

 

[guang]

MAC filtering,only allow 2 PCs
SSID is hidden

 

[telkomsuig]

MAC filtering,only allow 2 PCs
SSID is hidden

Next time I'm in cpt town I know where to get free bandwith

 

[The_Techie]

Why don't you have encryption enabled, guang?