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Not only would that degrade the neighbor's access speed, but if he is
permitting file sharing between his networked computers, Jimmy's
friend would have unrestricted access to his neighbor's hard drives.
This cannot be overstated -- make darn sure you change the router's ID
(SSID/ESSID) and enable WEP encryption. This isn't a bulletproof
solution, but it will discourage 99% of the network hackers. To be
extra safe, don't permit file sharing.
From: Jimmy <jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Joe <jes333@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Omega-List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, October 14, 2004, 9:23:18 AM
Subject: Off Topic - Wireless Routers
I think D-Link is wide open when you get it so you should be able to
find the signal on the wireless cards and attach to it. Depending on
the cable modem you may wind up with two firewalls. If the cable
modem has a firewall and the router does also you may get no
connection until you kill off one of the firewalls.
DON'T FORGET TO PUT IN THAT SECURITY. I was talking to a young man
Saturday night and he was getting free DSL in Dallas because someone
forgot to setup username and password or even make the signal unseen
to the neighbors on a D-Link wireless router just like yours. LOL.
Jimmy
Thursday, October 14, 2004, 11:08:43 AM, you wrote:
J> Thanks Mike, that's all I needed to know.
J> -----Original Message-----
J> From: Mike [mailto:mikee@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
J> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 12:02 PM
J> To: Joe
J> Cc: Omega-List@xxxxxxx Com
J> Subject: Re: Off Topic - Wireless Routers
>> Dear List,
>>
>> Sorry for the off topic post, but I have been unable to get an answer to
>> this question.
>>
>> I recently purchased a D-Link DI-624 Wireless Router, which I have not
>> installed yet. I have 4 computers in my home that I want to share my high
>> speed cable internet connection between and network with a simple peer to
>> peer network. All computers ( 2 desktop PC's and 2 notebooks ) run
J> Windows
>> XP Home with Service Pack 2 installed.
>>
>> My question is:
>>
>> Do I have to physically connect the router to one of the desktop PC's with
>> an Ethernet cable? I really do not want to do this due to the location
J> the
>> cable comes into my house. I would greatly prefer to physically connect
J> the
>> router only to the cable modem, then connect all 4 computers to the router
>> wirelessly. Is this possible?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joe Schedlbauer
>>
>>
J> Connect the router to your cable/dsl modem. Put wireless interface cards
J> in all other machines.
J> Mike
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