[MLB-WIRELESS] How not to go war driving....

[Ryan Abbenhuys]

Turn off SSID broadcasts and enable MAC restrictions.
Enable WEP if you don't care about a slight loss of bandwidth.

All of this can be cracked, but the vast majority of people will take one
look and move on to something easier.....Unless of course it's a neighbour
who can try and crack it from the comfort of their living room chair.

>That bring's me to a question i have been meaning to ask - how do you stop

>people just connecting onto your wireless network? i'm not exactly in 
>danger of hacing people hi-jack my 56k connection in the middle of 
>no-where - but i would like to know how to stop unwanted people from 
>connecting - can you set up a client system? where a certain number of 
>wireless addresses are allowed? and that's it?
>
>Tim.
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