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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1603389" data-attributes="member: 110816">Welcome to Mac-Forums..Hmm, a shared WiFi with no security at all? That's hardly a smart thing. First and foremost you want to ensure you are not doing anything with your financial institutions..Next, any and all transactions with your credit cards or other sensitive info should be done with an HTTPS:// connection to the site. Most browsers now put a green secure indicator in the URL bar to ensure that is the case.One obvious solution to the security problem is to get your own Internet network and router and be safe..Now far as the Home Share and stuff goes, it is definitely possible for them to block that based on ports. If you look at this <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972" target="_blank">KB article</a>, you'll see that iTunes Home Sharing uses TCP port 3689 and UDP port 5353 for operation. If the router used to make your complex WiFi available blocks these ports, you don't get Home Sharing. Since the router is out of your control, you can't really work around this unless you can configure iTunes to use different (open) ports for its communication and I don't believe that's an option, so you're stuck there..To solve this problem as well, you might want to get your own Internet service and router..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1603389, member: 110816"] Welcome to Mac-Forums.. Hmm, a shared WiFi with no security at all? That's hardly a smart thing. First and foremost you want to ensure you are not doing anything with your financial institutions.. Next, any and all transactions with your credit cards or other sensitive info should be done with an HTTPS:// connection to the site. Most browsers now put a green secure indicator in the URL bar to ensure that is the case. One obvious solution to the security problem is to get your own Internet network and router and be safe.. Now far as the Home Share and stuff goes, it is definitely possible for them to block that based on ports. If you look at this [URL="http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972"]KB article[/URL], you'll see that iTunes Home Sharing uses TCP port 3689 and UDP port 5353 for operation. If the router used to make your complex WiFi available blocks these ports, you don't get Home Sharing. Since the router is out of your control, you can't really work around this unless you can configure iTunes to use different (open) ports for its communication and I don't believe that's an option, so you're stuck there.. To solve this problem as well, you might want to get your own Internet service and router.. [/QUOTE]

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