slackers
I had some issues with connectivity speed- my DSL isn’t lightning fast but it’s always been ok.
So I started looking at my shit, and it seems that about NINE OF MY NEIGHBORS ARE USING MY DAMNED INTERNET CONNECTION!!!
I never had to enable wep authentication but now I have. Dumb bastards. Now they’ll call their own ISP’s and ask why their shit doesn’t work, totally unaware they’ve been freeloading off me for some time.
You need to use WPA2, or your neighbors can realtime crack your wep with automated tools they can download anywhere.
If your router can’t do WPA2 it’s time to upgrade.
Our next door neighbors siphon off our wi-fi all the time and hack into our Netflix. And use our washer and dryer when we’re not home. And drink all our good scotch. And eat all the pimento cheese.
That’s what we get for living next door to our son and DIL!
Chris: I’m surrounded by people who couldn’t put gas in their lawnmowers without help. I’m the help.
I know all the people who were using my wireless, and they were ALL using it because their computer s latched onto it automatically.
When the kid across the street reaches the ripe old age of nine, though, I’m gonna upgrade it all.
The local wardrivers all use the public library, because it has a huge data pipe they leave unsecured and are too damned dumb to shut off at night.
When the time comes to clamp down, you are the first guy I’mna talk to.
All the damn security protocols have been cracked, to one extent or another, and even confining access to specific MAC addresses isn’t foolproof: that, too, can be spoofed.
Mainly you just enable some kind of security to discourage casual freeloaders, because the non-casual freeloaders can get in if they know what they’re doing.
…as for them calling their own ISPs–what makes you think they have ISPs?
I set up most of their computers.
1. Was guilty of that until my daughter’s boyfriend pointed the fact out.
2. Probably is pretty common.
3. Oh well.
V/R JWest
This was certainly accidental on everyones part.
Here’s a HUGE caveat: if you happen to live near a perv, and he downloads kiddy porn by wardriving your site, the Feds will put the iron on YOU first. They’ll trash your computer, the whole works.
MAYBE they’ll get the real perv, maybe not. Some of those guys keep their hard drives in fireproof boxes with thermite, as I’ve been told…
Yep, seal up that router.
Excellent advice, dog.