Anyone got D-Link Wireless 108MB?

[F1Pilot]

I've been running my laptop on the 108MB wireless system at home. Works beautifully. My boss wants me to implement a system like that at work. Anyone had any probs with someone trying to hack in? Just curious about the experiences of other wireless users.

[UALOneKPlus]

I'm not sure if the D-Link is WPA enabled.

Current wi-fi security is good enough for most home users, but pretty poor for business purposes.

You might just want to wait for WPA equipment to be widely available, or do research and buy WPA enabled wi-fi equipment for work. I think XP service pack 2 will also support WPA, whenever that's released.

[F1Pilot]

Thanks for the tip! the D-Link is indeed WPA enabled.

[Ian]

A better way is to limit access via the hardware address. I've done this at home. You can't even see my AP's if you're not on the list.

[aviationwiz]

A better way is to limit access via the hardware address. I've done this at home. You can't even see my AP's if you're not on the list.

Same, I have mine MAC limited to my two devices that have WiFi, if someone comes over to my house and wants to use WiFi, they gotta go through me to enable them first.

[UALOneKPlus]

I too have Mac ID filtering enabled. This prevents unauthorized people from using your wireless access point.

However, WPA adds a newer robust level of encryption to the wireless data, so the data that you're transmitting is more secure.

The current encryption over wi-fi still allows hackers to break the weak encryption so they snoop on your data. WPA will help prevent that.

[F1Pilot]

Okay, newbie in the house. How is it that I enable all of this cool stuff? As it is, I have my 156 bit encryption set. I need to RTFM, I guess. Nt only does it have WPA, but it also has WPA-PSK.

It's a trip...at work, I flipped on my laptop so that a friend could check it out before she bought. I walked away and came back to her surfing the net. Problem is that since we don't have any WiFi set up at work, she was on sombody elses network. I checked to see the available networks...4 of them. Dunno how it automatically latched on. Is that even possible?

[CDRecorder]

It's a trip...at work, I flipped on my laptop so that a friend could check it out before she bought. I walked away and came back to her surfing the net. Problem is that since we don't have any WiFi set up at work, she was on sombody elses network. I checked to see the available networks...4 of them. Dunno how it automatically latched on. Is that even possible?

Yes, that's quite possible. If the other networks are unencrypted, anyone can log on easily. All they have to do is select the network and click "connect".

[F1Pilot]

Here's something I can't figure. My computer used to "hook" right onto my wireless network automatically here at home. For some reason, it doesn't do that anymore. Any ideas?

[UALOneKPlus]

Here's something I can't figure. My computer used to "hook" right onto my wireless network automatically here at home. For some reason, it doesn't do that anymore. Any ideas?

Do you use WEP at home? Try deleting the network from your XP wireless network settings, and then re-adding it back. This may help.