Just made my place WiFi...ask me anything!

[KeepItReal]

...er except what the hell was I doing hooking all that stuff up on a Friday night! :-)

[Don_G]

1. May I Move Next Door?

I'm tired of being on the road and drinking Starbucks Coffee.

[KeepItReal]

4. :-) Come on over!

You anywhere near Cali?

[Don_G]

8. Not Yet

But I have enough to where I can stay there for a while and visit relatives en-route. Never mind the Cub's games....

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. been considering

tell me how do you deal with security, I mean I know about
passwords and changing frequencies but

[KeepItReal]

5. You can do a couple of things...

Have your wireless router *not* broadcast its ID (SSID) and you can turn on encryption (WEP)...

That's about as secure as I can make it right now.

My little network couldn't be easily accessed. My neigbor on the other hand...

[Atlant]

10. You should also filter MAC addresses.

Every Ethernet device has a unique-in-all-the-world 48-bit
address called its MAC (Media Access Control) address. So
every WiFi card that you stick into your laptops has one of
these unique MAC addresses. They're usually formatted to
look something like this:

01:02:03:7F:F9:AB

You can set up your WiFi router so that it only allows
connections from the actual Mac addresses that are
used by the few WiFi cards that you're actually using.
This mostly prevents other WiFi cards from connecting
to your Internet router.

(It's not bullet-proof; there is such a thing as "MAC
Spoofing" where someone "hears" one of your WiFi
cards broadcasting its MAC address and they then
start using YOUR MAC address, but that takes
a pretty-sophisticated hacker. Your J-Random "War
Driver" isn't going to bother, even if they know how.)

We use MAC address filtering on our home WiFi
network; you should too.

NOTE: The "MAC address" has nothing to do with
Apple Macintoshes, except that Macs use MAC
addresses too.

Atlant

[HEyHEY]

3. WiFi what the fuck is WiFi?

[KeepItReal]

6. It's a wireless local area network...

I can surf the net at DSL speeds from any room in my place with no cables. Got my MAC and laptop connected wirelessly.
Pretty sweet.

[HEyHEY]

7. That is cool

Neato!

[Don_G]

9. Better With A PC 802.11B Card In Your Notebook

And roaming the events in a place like Wrigley Field in Chicago during Game 6.

You can always stay connected (around Loyla University and Northwest Hospital) but you can't always disconnect from your emotions when a bone-head opts to become the 2003 "goat" and earn a place in the Cub's history.

Grrrrrrrrrr.

[Atlant]

11. It stands for "Wireless Fidelity".

They trying to say that it has all the fidelity of
a wired Ethernet connection. It's marketing, but
WiFi actually is extremely cool.

I'm using it right now.

Atlant