I just 'went wireless', ASK ME ANYTHING!

[radwriter0555]

I hooked up my very own wireless network in the house for the laptop to float around, primarily for the kidlet, and for the tenant in the guest house.

No more cables for me!!

I did it all by myself!

Next: Wireless home theater for the flat panel teevees!

I love gadgets!

[Kamika]

1. huh??

Wireless Internet??? omg

[joeybee12]

2. Yeah, those wire bras were a bitch! Do you find you get as much

support with a wireless one???????

[Wonk]

3. How confident are you that it's secure?

[radwriter0555]

7. Oddly I keep NOTHING on the computers that would reveal any personal info

that would be detrimental.

Docs are kept to cds, what few their are... no other numbers or records. I use the computers for entertainment. And basically, I have nothing to hide.

[ProudGerman]

4. But did you make it secure?

Don't want someone driving by your house and accessing your network and files. Lotsa people doing what you are doing, and many of them are leaving their networks unsecure.

[xultar]

5. What did u use...linksys? Did you get a print sever? Kewl...

I went wireless then I hooked my parents(the old folks)@ their home for their fathers/mothers/and birthday presents. They love it!!

I'm now trying to get my Ipaq to print over my wireless network. If u have any success with that please let me know..I can't get it to work.

[radwriter0555]

9. I didn't get a print server thing, since one other pc is sitting down all

the time in the office and it's the only one we print from really.... which doesn't happen often, except when I find a good recipe.

And I used netgear from circuit city. not top of the line, sure, but it seems fine, so the geeks tell me. And it had lotsa rebate stuff on it.

;)

[xultar]

13. I got Netgear for my mom and pops. It had rebates also! Nice products nt

[lcordero]

6. do you have WEP turned on?

[radwriter0555]

8. what's wep?

lol

[lcordero]

10. check this out

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2003/11/25/267415.html

have you ever heard of "wardriving" or maybe "warchalking"?

[gonefishing]

12. I am always amazed how I can be so naive sometimes!

I heard of warchalking I just never realized it could be used for such things. I am gald I secured my network. I hope enough...

[radwriter0555]

15. so what's the harm if a neighbor wants to use my ISP? Hell at the rates

they charge, I'd welcome LOTS more people to use it for free.

I mean I pay a lot of money, so why not share, so long is it doesn't interfere with my service?

[lcordero]

16. the harm is that

one of the LOTS of neighbors can get you arrested by downloading kiddie porn from your connection.

[gonefishing]

11. I was being lazy until...

I came home from vacation and found that two of my neighbors were on my network. I then did some simple tricks to stop them from getting on my network.

1) I changed the default IP addressees from 192.168.1 to something else.
2) I changed the default SSID to something other than linksys
3) I turned off SSID broadcast.
4) I turned on 128 bit encryption (wep)
5) Then called my neighbor and asked him if he was having internet problems.

[Nlighten1]

14. Did you up WEP?