Re: Wireless router

bassbag <bassbag@bodybags.dragon.wales> wrote in
news:MPG.1df5683f53bb8ece989689@news.ispserve.co.uk:

> Im thinking of getting a belkin wireless router for my single home pc.
> http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/Specifications.asp?ProductID=2074
>
> Just how secure are they compared with direct connection routers if
> WEP is used.

I keep hearing the WEP is easily crack able now. You want WPA.

> I have read some reviews that suggests when WEP is enabled
> it can cause connectivity problems.

The one problem you would have is if the WEP or WPA key on the wireless
card doesn't match the key being used by the router. It will show a
signal strength between the two devices but the computer cannot obtain a
DHCP IP from the router or cannot use a static IP on the router as the
key mismatch and the will prevent the machine from accessing the
Internet.
 
> Any comments/advice or suggestions
> or better/preferred routers would be welcome.

You may want to look at the Linksys WRT54G router, it can get free 3rd
party firmware that can be implemented that allows logging to be
implemented on the router so you can use something like free Wallwatcher
to review the logs for inbound and outbound traffic in case someone is
able to hack your wireless set up and use a DHCP or static IP on the
router. The two 3rd party firmware's can stop inbound and outbound
traffic by setting FW rules I hear.

http://netsecurity.about.com/cs/wireless/a/aa112203_2.htm

Duane :)
Received on Sat Dec 3 04:18:41 2005