[Discussion] Wireless Security

[Julian Thomas]

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 15:44:52 -0500 John Sandercock wrote:
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>If you don't use encryption, you may be providing some of your neighbors
>with free Internet access.
>Whether that is a good or a bad thing depends on whether you incur
>additional costs, whether your own access is affected, whether you have
>adequate security to protect the nodes on your network, and whether you
>think that improving your community's access is a good thing.
>In Manhattan, where I live, the community seems to have voted for
>encryption.
>
When I lived in an extremely rural area, with no neighbors within wireless distance, I lived 
without encryption, limiting myself to MAC address filtering and turning off the access point 
when I wasn't using wireless.

Now I'm in a more [sub]urban area. I can see 3 other access points, all of which are using 
encryption. I am using WEP2 and still use MAC address filtering.

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