"MAC spoofing ... pretty advanced hacking" Not so. It's opening a dialog in Windows (or in MacOS, or Linux, or the correct menu in Squeezebox Network Config) and entering the new MAC address. There's nothing especially advanced about it, other than finding a suitable address to imitate. And that can be done by sniffing network traffic. And with wireless, you don't need any physical access to the network to sniff network traffic...
For some time, I've had the opinion that you -don't- need to make your network impenetrable from the outside. Your network just needs to be -harder to crack than your neighbour's network-. (The average drive-by WiFi hacker is just after bandwith, not your 200Gigs of Flacs or your digital photos) MAC filtering, as a security mechanism, is poor in a world where many (most?) new routers ship with WEP or WPA encryption enabled out-of-the-box. As to the original poster's specific problem, are there other sources of interference nearby? Other routers, microwave ovens, neighbours using electric drills, etc? Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39088 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
