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Author Topic: Neighbours unsecure Wireless, Shall I tell them?  (Read 3480 times)

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Re: Neighbours unsecure Wireless, Shall I tell them?
« Reply #30 on: 11 March 2008, 22:14:34 »

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Now you got me worried.

How do I know if I am secure, I think I am, i am sure I had to put a number in to get it going. I am on a bt home hub. There is one other neighbour near me and I tried once signing on his and it would not allow.
Please only in plain easy english thanks.
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BT Homehub was released inherently insecure (the OEM, Thomson, were told to remove WPA in the BT specific version (its a Speedtouch 7)), though later updates have given options for securing, but are quite hidden.

Thanks TB, clear as mudd now.  :-[ :-[ :-? :-?How can I tell, my laptop loads automaticaly when I switch it on. :D
unless you have specifically set it, it will be wep

I had to put a long number in when I first set it up, I assumed this was for security, just this thread made me wonder. :)
probably wep key.

Seeing as I refuse to have such a piece of junk in the house, I'll leave to someone else to describe step by step how you set this up
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Re: Neighbours unsecure Wireless, Shall I tell them?
« Reply #31 on: 11 March 2008, 23:33:47 »

I have changed the password on my home hub from default, I also check what is connected, still console, console, PVR, PC.

There are 4 or 5 wifis around here, only tried ours, my wife failed to get the DS to connect to a homehub - wrong one ;D ;D

Might try the other wifis one day, but can't decide which device to try as PC and PVR use Ethernet, PS3 needs a keyboard for ease of use and I can't be bothered messing with Wiiiiii
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Re: Neighbours unsecure Wireless, Shall I tell them?
« Reply #32 on: 12 March 2008, 09:03:14 »

`Take security really-seriously here:

Hidden SSID
Wireless-notebook operates in DMZ....important stuff on LAN-only PC.
WPA-PSK encrytion (not a word-key I use a long string of letters/numerals/symbols)
MAC filtering
Router transmitter-output setting reduced to practical minima
Router login/pass specified
Hardware firewall
My Domains are hosted by a proxy registrant
Passwords changed weekly

Paranoid; moi?  ;D
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Re: Neighbours unsecure Wireless, Shall I tell them?
« Reply #33 on: 12 March 2008, 09:15:11 »

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`Take security really-seriously here:

Hidden SSID
Wireless-notebook operates in DMZ....important stuff on LAN-only PC.
WPA-PSK encrytion (not a word-key I use a long string of letters/numerals/symbols)
MAC filtering
Router transmitter-output setting reduced to practical minima
Router login/pass specified
Hardware firewall
My Domains are hosted by a proxy registrant
Passwords changed weekly

Paranoid; moi?  ;D


All that protection just for a handbag !!!!!  .......    :)
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Re: Neighbours unsecure Wireless, Shall I tell them?
« Reply #34 on: 12 March 2008, 09:19:03 »

I scratched my head for a while having built up a new PC once. Couldn't get it to see other devices in my network. Then it dawned on me that I hadn't entered the key for MY WLAN. Could surf the net quite happily though. :-/

It had just stumbled onto an open access point in the neighbourhood and conencted.

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Re: Neighbours unsecure Wireless, Shall I tell them?
« Reply #35 on: 12 March 2008, 09:32:33 »

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`Take security really-seriously here:

Hidden SSID
Wireless-notebook operates in DMZ....important stuff on LAN-only PC.
WPA-PSK encrytion (not a word-key I use a long string of letters/numerals/symbols)
MAC filtering
Router transmitter-output setting reduced to practical minima
Router login/pass specified
Hardware firewall
My Domains are hosted by a proxy registrant
Passwords changed weekly

Paranoid; moi?  ;D


All that protection just for a handbag !!!!!  .......    :)
;D....Despite my farm`s setting in a rural idyl, wireless security is still a concern.
When I first got a wireless router I was stunned to discover the range they can give....down in the valley; 300 ft. lower and 1.75 miles from here (direct line of sight) there`s a roadside restaurant with an 'ordinary' retail wireless router being used as a simple hotspot for diners: ' I can could login from here with 60% signal strength!  :o
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Re: Neighbours unsecure Wireless, Shall I tell them?
« Reply #36 on: 12 March 2008, 14:18:54 »

advise them and charge them for the advice !!
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Re: Neighbours unsecure Wireless, Shall I tell them?
« Reply #37 on: 12 March 2008, 14:36:26 »

Using WPA2 here. Although due to the amount of walls, and interference from everything in town, I have to use the rangebooster just to get a decent signal strength in my living room - where my media PC streams hi-def content!
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Re: Neighbours unsecure Wireless, Shall I tell them?
« Reply #38 on: 12 March 2008, 15:05:56 »

Reading this thread makes me wonder whether the security procedures I have at home are a little light. :o

All I did was connect up the wireless router Sky gave me and typed in the code to access it wirelessly.

But in answer to the original moral dilemma: I would go along with the suggestion of an anonymous readme.txt on their desktop  ::)
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Re: Neighbours unsecure Wireless, Shall I tell them?
« Reply #39 on: 12 March 2008, 16:28:07 »

whilst i wouldn't do anything bad nor would i go looking in their files/folders, i would have a field day with wall paper, screensavers, random .txt files on the desktop and the opening and closing of the CD drawer.....and if they have two fo them then wayhey, twice as much fun
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