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<blockquote data-quote="IvanLasston" data-source="post: 1100380" data-attributes="member: 145676"><p>Hiding the network does little to stop someone from finding your network. Simple tools like istumbler will discover hidden network names</p><p><a href="http://www.istumbler.net/" target="_blank">http://www.istumbler.net/</a></p><p>Plus hiding the SSID can cause wifi issues - I've seen you have to manually reattach to networks every time you walk away from a hidden network. I used to hide my network but it became a PITA - and as I said it really didn't provide any extra security so I ended up broadcasting the SSID always.</p><p></p><p>Also Mac Address filtering is easily spoofed. So if someone has a MAC ID that is valid for a network - one can easily spoof the ID on their computer to try to log on. </p><p></p><p>With WPA you have pretty good protection. A big password isn't a good password. Size matters, but so does random characters. You want random upper case, lower case, numbers and characters. A big phrase where you put in random characters - or a generated password you can hand out</p><p><a href="http://www.google.com/search?aq=1&oq=generate+password&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=generate+password+online" target="_blank">generate password online - Google Search</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IvanLasston, post: 1100380, member: 145676"] Hiding the network does little to stop someone from finding your network. Simple tools like istumbler will discover hidden network names [url]http://www.istumbler.net/[/url] Plus hiding the SSID can cause wifi issues - I've seen you have to manually reattach to networks every time you walk away from a hidden network. I used to hide my network but it became a PITA - and as I said it really didn't provide any extra security so I ended up broadcasting the SSID always. Also Mac Address filtering is easily spoofed. So if someone has a MAC ID that is valid for a network - one can easily spoof the ID on their computer to try to log on. With WPA you have pretty good protection. A big password isn't a good password. Size matters, but so does random characters. You want random upper case, lower case, numbers and characters. A big phrase where you put in random characters - or a generated password you can hand out [url=http://www.google.com/search?aq=1&oq=generate+password&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=generate+password+online]generate password online - Google Search[/url] [/QUOTE]
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