Important For Wireless Router Users !!!!!!!!

[Ian Robinson]

Lots of them about.

My ADSL is shared by two computers via wireless adapters (a PCMCIA card for the lappy , and a USB gadget for the desktop) , you can't access it without logging in.

Secured.

My wireless devices can talk with the modem , plugged into the phone line, across the length of my house. So presumeable if you drive past my house you'll see there is a wireless router/modem there , but you can't get in (unless you can crack the encyption).

[Starkler (Geoff)]

WEP is meant to be poor security but even to crack that requires two machines and a lot of jiggery pokery (so I have read). So its not as easy as just downloading and running a simple warez program.

I have wpa and a simple 8 digit passcode. Nobody is going to bother with cracking mine.