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Posted by Tricky Dicky on 04/16/06 20:01
"BGN" <nickmooney@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:04:02 +0100, "Tricky Dicky"
> <tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Having been using my router for a few months now just for its hardware
>>firewall and ethernet connection I was appalled to just find that three
>>other computer had decided to join my network!
>
> You never noticed?
I hate to say it but no. If anything untoward had been happening then I
would have noticed.
Could it be that these other users never even noticed that they were
connected to my router?
>>I can understand that people want to use these items straight out of the
>>box
>>and for their connection to be automatically detected but surely it is not
>>too much to expect a little bit of security rather than the "hey come and
>>connect to me" signal that is broadcast
>
> When you plugged it in and you configured it why didn't you turn WEP
> on?
>
> Whenever I configure a new router I always get it working without WEP
> (takes af ew minutes) and then turn WEP on so no one else can use it.
I have not been using any of the wireless features so just assumed that
without me setting up these facilities they would not be switched on
We learn from mistakes of course - just wish they were other peoples in this
case!
Tricky
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