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Posted by Robin Mayes on 04/17/06 14:55
"Tricky Dicky" <tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1145217671.3796.0@damia.uk.clara.net...
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> "BGN" <nickmooney@spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:o58542pspurictnibs2tpo6t74l5riscvc@4ax.com...
> > 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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