Comments on: Home Network Wireless

By: Curtis Stricklan

Curtis Stricklan — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 07:57:02 +0000

wireless routers are very necessary nowadays because we do not want so many wires running around the home ~;;

By: Michael Meder

Michael Meder — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:27:13 +0000

When I set up a wireless network for a private home, I regularly use these guidelines:
1) Do not broadcast the Network Name.
2) Name the Network something unique – using guidelines for passwords: Use UPPPER and lower case letters, numbers, and special characters of at least 8 characters in length.
3) Set up WPA2 encryption – 128=bit key.
4) Set up the list of MAC ids that will be allowed to connect to the Network. Yep, allowed.

Yes, there’s some maintenance involved in adding a new device (say when your brother comes over with his iPod), but it keeps ALL the lurkers OUT.

What do you think?

By: Jolin

Jolin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:46:29 +0000

Wireless is in the air now, no matter you need it or not.

By: David

David — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:09:44 +0000

I can not even imagine what the WiFi is like in a Major Metropolitan area. Glad this jarred a solution for you, lol….

By: Forest Parks

Forest Parks — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:05:44 +0000

THe unsecured network thing is annoying here at times. I use a macbook and switch between windows and mac os fairly often. Sometimes in windows my computer keeps switching to this unsecured netwrk with a weaker signal. Really annoys me….. just as typing this I had a thought, why don’t I just block it! Duh!!!

Anyway thanks for letting this little white typing box be my thought processor too!

If you ever sit on a train and watch the networks on a laptop / mobile phone it’s unbelievable just how many of them there are. What is this doing to our heads??