Ok for all you hackers out there.
I have a wireless lan card in my laptop, and on many occasions I have the pleasure of being out on a run board to death and can find a wireless access point and begin surfing the web for my personal enjoyment. I care nothing about hacking into someones network server and discovering things I have no business seeing, only surfing the net. Now I realize that this is not necessarily right either despite my personal prime directive of not to eaves drop on peoples networks. However I love the Technology so much I just bought one of these things and hooked it up today. I love this thing I can sit on the couch in the living room, watch TV and surf the net all at the same time.
What I have discovered is that most people do not use the encryption feature, not that it's that difficult to counter, but it is another wall to breach none the less. Second most people enable the DHCP funtion on the router which makes it extremely easy to breach. All I need is a wireless card and enable the automatic settings, get a fairly descent signal and I'm in. Third most of these routers will allow you to restrict access to all but the few MAC addresses that you specify, in my opinion this is the strongest form of security on these routers.
What I have done, my server serves as the DHCP, the wep is enabled at 128 bit encyption key and only the wireless card in my lap top is allowed access. By not enabling the DHCP, you have to try and figure out what my LAN IP addresses are before you can even gain access to my network, and that is provided you can make it past the MAC filter.
Here's my question, is there any thing further I can do to increase the security on my router other than shutting it off when not in use? Sorry to make you read the novel, but I felt I needed to explain what I had done and my logic behind it.
I have a wireless lan card in my laptop, and on many occasions I have the pleasure of being out on a run board to death and can find a wireless access point and begin surfing the web for my personal enjoyment. I care nothing about hacking into someones network server and discovering things I have no business seeing, only surfing the net. Now I realize that this is not necessarily right either despite my personal prime directive of not to eaves drop on peoples networks. However I love the Technology so much I just bought one of these things and hooked it up today. I love this thing I can sit on the couch in the living room, watch TV and surf the net all at the same time.
What I have discovered is that most people do not use the encryption feature, not that it's that difficult to counter, but it is another wall to breach none the less. Second most people enable the DHCP funtion on the router which makes it extremely easy to breach. All I need is a wireless card and enable the automatic settings, get a fairly descent signal and I'm in. Third most of these routers will allow you to restrict access to all but the few MAC addresses that you specify, in my opinion this is the strongest form of security on these routers.
What I have done, my server serves as the DHCP, the wep is enabled at 128 bit encyption key and only the wireless card in my lap top is allowed access. By not enabling the DHCP, you have to try and figure out what my LAN IP addresses are before you can even gain access to my network, and that is provided you can make it past the MAC filter.
Here's my question, is there any thing further I can do to increase the security on my router other than shutting it off when not in use? Sorry to make you read the novel, but I felt I needed to explain what I had done and my logic behind it.