Posted on 03/04/2006 11:44:18 PM PST by conservative in nyc
I just read your profile and I am VERY impressed with your husband. God bless him for his service to our country, and God bless you for sacrifice in supporting him. Mrs. Chandler is an Army brat and I know from her what that can be like.
Neither specifying the MAC addresses of your NICs nor using WEP will secure your wireless setup. MAC addresses can be sniffed (see my post 47) and duplicated by any mildly competent hacker, and WEP keys can often be cracked in minutes, using free software. If your hardware supports WPA, you should enable that instead of WEP.
I just caught your tech-support comment. That is so funny. My husband gained free life-time tech-support when he married ME, but I sure don't compare to any of these techno-geek FReepers, or your son-in-laws. I'm just a lowly office admin that works on IT environments.
Post 47 is a bit cryptic; however, I have WPA capability with my router, but I'm not sure my TiVo can handle it. I have two computers using Windows XP and a TiVo. Yeah, I know that's kinda gay. Can all 3 systems use WPA?
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Have you ever thought of freelancing? Consulting? You might want to do some research about how to go about hanging your own shingle.
BTW, don't worry about the storm. Go to sleep. You will be fine.
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I have freelanced, or rather, worked as a contractor. A secretarial contractor, if you can believe that. My last job was at VISA. Major data center migration project. It was FUN. I got to work crazy hours like 0130 to 1400, sometimes. I am a latenight-owl by nature.
I did some googling on your TiVo and the short answer is that it apparently does not yet support WPA (there seem to be some people who are not happy about that) but apparently there is a workaround:
"If you want WPA support, you have to get a wired network USB adapter and connect it from the TiVo to a wired-to-wireless bridge (aka gaming adapter). You then configure the bridge to connect to the WPA-encrypted wireless network. A Linksys WRT54G with third party firmware such as DD-WRT can do this as well. http://www.dd-wrt.com ."
I have no idea if this is correct, but it's a start.
She will probably give that up later this year as she has grandchildren to help out with. We have babies popping out all over around here. (Here is my tech support's second, born about one week and 15 minutes ago.)
Well, at the moment, I've got a USB adapter attached to the TiVo. It's a wireless B. Not sure if that helps, or not. But-- if I have a name and password protecting my router, can it still be hacked? What area (of my router) should I be concerned with the most?
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations!!!!!!!
Carolyn
Thank you. This grandpa is very pleased.
I'm amazed that a city like New York doesn't have WiFi access already available throughout. It's very dense and highly populated, they could easily wire the entire city and there would be plenty of "add-on" subscribers to it... esp if all the ISP's cooperated on the venture and charges a mere $1-2 a month for the service (+ subscriptions to visitors and communiting workers).
They are doing that for San Jose as we speak...
Excellent salesmanship!
Very perceptive. I was just this evening discussing with Mrs. Chandler how he would have had a promising career in sales if he didn't love computer technology so much. I wish I had him as a sales rep for my web design business. The guy is loaded with charm, and everybody who meets him is impressed.
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