Posted by BGN on 04/16/06 19:54

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 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.
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