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John Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 17:53 +0100, Neil Winchurst wrote: > > As this problem is dragging on a bit, and frankly the risk in Holsworthy > is negligable, I would say it is starting to become more hassle than its > worth. I would just use WEP as its "good enough", I'm not sure where you > live in town, but how many people are around you in range and do you > feel they are a risk of cracking your wifi, even WEP. > > There are a number of open wifi's in town, 3 or 4 in the square alone so > if yours is locked its just not worth the agro for anyone else. Oh, and > if yours was in the square before... Thanks, I checked my email a couple > of times :] > > I use WEP here, simply because it was configured years ago and I'm too > lazy to go around changing all the devices (ps3's, wii, pda, laptop, > netbooks, desktops, ipod etc) > > Living in a field 75m from the road with the nearest house 0.5miles away > helps though :] > > Thanks, John!! Up to now I have not had any security at all. Yes, where I live there is very little chance of anyone around being able/bothered to log on to my network. However, I will look at it a bit longer to see what happens. If it becomes too much hassle I will take your advice. Regards Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html