<div>If you don't use encryption, you may be providing some of your neighbors with free Internet access. </div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>In Manhattan, where I live, the community seems to have voted for encryption.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Brian Grawburg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grawburg@myglnc.com">grawburg@myglnc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">While my wireless network is on basically 24/7, my laptops are not. When I'm finished with my work the PC is turned off.<br>
I keep the network up because I have a Slingbox that my son connects to overseas. My laptops are running eCS and W2K.<br><br>Under these conditions do I need to be concerned about applying WEP encryption? I do very little e-commerce.<br>
<br><br>Brian Grawburg<br>Wilson, NC<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Discussion mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Discussion@lists.possi.org">Discussion@lists.possi.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.possi.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion" target="_blank">http://lists.possi.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>John<br>