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Originally Posted by audiboy90
What would you guys recommend to me as far a securing my wireless home network? I am running Mac OS 10.3.3 with an airport card and a linksys BEF11S4W router. I have a 64-bit WEP encrypted password but do not feel that this is sufficient by any means. Software, hardware, I do not really mind. But I am a college student and on a budget. Thanks.
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Set the WEP key to the highest you can, change the SSID word to something different, AFTER you turn off its broadcast. If the router supports it, switch to MAC Address Authentication. What that means is only MAC address's entered into the router can use the router for intra and internet access etc..
Also if you have DHCP ON, you might want limit the IP pool to cover your computers and nothing more.. aka set the DHCP IP pool to a small number of IP's prefferably to how many PC's you have.
There are truly open wireless places out there but they made that choice and accept the responsibility of doing so.... you do not wanna be the onramp for some spammer, hacker, or worse..