Amber,
Have you checked D-Link's website for a firmware upgrade for your router?
The behaviour you describe sounds exactly like my router. Of course, I
didn't find out about looking for a firmware upgrade until AFTER I had
purchased a new router! Oh well, now I have an extra one. Presently I am
usi
On Jul 7, 2005, at 10:07 AM, Amber wrote:
Hi Jim
You'll undoubtedly get a lot of advice. One thing I've done with my
local SBC DSL 2Wire modem/router/coffeemaker is to make my wi-fi
account private or closed. I set it up using the 2Wire software, and
you'll have to see if your DLink permits
Thanks for your reply - I am ditching the DLink Router. It has
caused no end of problems for me. Initially it was working great
but within a couple of days, it just became really erratic.
Sometimes it would work fine - then I would have no connection at
all and trying to restore it was
Hi Jim
You'll undoubtedly get a lot of advice. One thing I've done with my
local SBC DSL 2Wire modem/router/coffeemaker is to make my wi-fi
account private or closed. I set it up using the 2Wire software,
and you'll have to see if your DLink permits the same thing. That
means the name of
On Jul 2, 2005, at 5:07 PM, David Lesher wrote:
A) WEP is roughly the equal of the hookeye on a screen-door. The
designers made some major errors and it's not secure by any means.
B) WPA is far better, but I've read of cracks there as well.
If you are serious about security, you need to r
Correction: The AirPort Extreme card can't. The normal AirPort card
can. Most 3rd party USB/PCMCIA ones can on Macs with the supported
chipsets. And it's RFMon mode, not promiscuous mode. Promiscuous mode
is getting all the packets on a network. RFmon mode is getting all
the packets from ev
I guess the answer depends on where you live. If you are in a house
that is relatively far from other houses which prevents people from
snooping on your net from comfort of their homes you will be fine
with WEP and if you want MAC address filtering (adding little more
steps for the hacker).
A) WEP is roughly the equal of the hookeye on a screen-door. The
designers made some major errors and it's not secure by any means.
B) WPA is far better, but I've read of cracks there as well.
If you are serious about security, you need to run a VPN.
If all you want to do is block casual use
On Jul 2, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Amber wrote:
I just bought a DLink Wireless Router (DI-524). It was actually not
too bad to set up but I do have a couple of concerns re: security.
I am wondering which settings I need to be attentive to so I can
ensure I don't get outsiders surfing or explori
On Jul 2, 2005, at 3:35 PM, Amber wrote:
I am wondering which settings I need to be attentive to so I can
ensure I don't get outsiders surfing or exploring on my bandwidth.
The bad news it, its pretty trivial for anyone to do anything, no
matter what security you set. It used to take 10
I just bought a DLink Wireless Router (DI-524). It was actually not
too bad to set up but I do have a couple of concerns re: security.
I am wondering which settings I need to be attentive to so I can
ensure I don't get outsiders surfing or exploring on my bandwidth.
Right now, in the OS X
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