EffoAnderson (October 6, 2008 at 6:22 am)

Booooo, Fear mongering...Share Internet access with those less fortunate. If wifi was free then people wouldn't have problems...Write your Congressman/woman.

elliottveares (September 26, 2008 at 10:36 pm)

not only could you get there files,you could login to there router(with the default gateway) and change the router setings.

SuiGen3ris (September 8, 2008 at 5:38 am)

Allright, thanks for the clarification.

24shandra (September 7, 2008 at 10:18 pm)

In theory nothing is uncrackable but if the likelihood of being cracked is near zero then we say it is uncrackable. A 20 char truly random password is very secure but why would you use a 20 char password when you can use 63? WPA is only as strong as the password used to secure it as it is vulnerable to offline attacks. If you have a secure password you don't ever have to change it. No-one as far as I know has cracked a WPA wireless network that has a 20 char cryptographically strong password.

SuiGen3ris (September 7, 2008 at 7:46 am)

Are you sure anything over 20 characters is impossible to crack with current technology?? I've never seen it done on WPA, but surely with enough packets over a long enough period (maybe weeks or months) it can be done. But I would definitely say unless you are holding the keys to a nuke or something on your network, no hacker would waste their time.I would say changing your password every couple months is also another valuable security measure.

24shandra (September 7, 2008 at 6:05 am)

WPA with a cryptographically secure password is NOT crackable with current technology. The only way one can crack it is if you use an insecure password (one less than 20 characters and not random.) The best password is 63 characters (the maximum) and is produced by a secure random number generator.

24shandra (September 7, 2008 at 5:53 am)

MAC address filtering and disabling SSID broadcast provide NO SECURITY. WEP is extremely insecure and can be cracked in seconds. Further, it looks like the PSK you used is just a few characters long. Also, changing the router password does NOT prevent people from accessing your wireless network (it only prevents people who already have access to your network from accessing your router.) To secure your network use WPA2 with AES and a 63 character cryptographically secure password.

DoubleDizzle1 (August 20, 2008 at 7:52 pm)

-Admin password change-Mac filter-WPA or even WPA2 encryption-Changing the SSID default name-turn off broadcastthose 5 things will go a long way.

sargentjaskaran (August 19, 2008 at 9:13 am)

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Shytownwoman (August 15, 2008 at 6:29 pm)

My problem is that I live in Florida, I have a linksys router connected to a modem. Everytime the electric goes out the router resets to factory defaults, during this time of year this is a daily occurance,making my computer unsecured. Is there anything I can do about this?