Comments on: How to keep freeloaders off your Wi-Fi connection

By: Phone jammer

Phone jammer — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:45:33 +0000

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By: ian

ian — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:25:42 +0000

Here’s another idea – run independent wifi routers – one secured as much as you can, no SSID broadcast etc and actually connected to the inetrnet. The other one, unsecured, broadcasting SSID….and no internet connection?

By: Steve Cassidy

Steve Cassidy — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:51:18 +0000

That’s completely brilliant, Barry. Somewhere here I ahave an email exchange with a chap about encryption keys and wireless, which Tim wasnts me to chuck in as a Blog entry. All I have to do is find it…

By: Jono

Jono — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:50:32 +0000

And who said humor was dead in the I.T. market? I Guess anyone who has spoken to the above posters….

By: Simon Peters

Simon Peters — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:23:04 +0000

wireless encryption is NEVER secure if there is a packet sniffer out there to match it, and believe me the hackers are ALWAYS ahead – get wired its the only way to be sure.

By: Monkey

Monkey — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:46:51 +0000

Given that WEP is as secure as a wet cloth and WPA2 with a 40+ character random key can be hacked in minutes using a rainbow table, the suggestion here won’t fool people like us (well, dome of us), but it certainly will the freeloader’s in your road. (unless they read PC Pro of course)

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:56:35 +0000

@ D Ortu:

I think your humour detection circuits have developed a fault.

By: D Ortu

D Ortu — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:37:56 +0000

Sorry but would it not be sufficient to use encryption such as WPA or WEP? Ideally WPA since I read it is more secure…instead of calling something virus exe etc…? The one above is a rather dumb suggestion I reckon…