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Whoa! Hold up there pardner. I didn't say the guy was a friend. I
was a bit shocked myself. LOL. Not shocked the line was open but
shocked a guy would be tapped in to it.
Jimmy
Thursday, October 14, 2004, 11:49:56 AM, you wrote:
C2> Not only would that degrade the neighbor's access speed, but if he is
C2> permitting file sharing between his networked computers, Jimmy's
C2> friend would have unrestricted access to his neighbor's hard drives.
C2> This cannot be overstated -- make darn sure you change the router's ID
C2> (SSID/ESSID) and enable WEP encryption. This isn't a bulletproof
C2> solution, but it will discourage 99% of the network hackers. To be
C2> extra safe, don't permit file sharing.
C2> From: Jimmy <jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
C2> To: Joe <jes333@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Omega-List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
C2> Date: Thursday, October 14, 2004, 9:23:18 AM
C2> Subject: Off Topic - Wireless Routers
C2> I think D-Link is wide open when you get it so you should be able to
C2> find the signal on the wireless cards and attach to it. Depending on
C2> the cable modem you may wind up with two firewalls. If the cable
C2> modem has a firewall and the router does also you may get no
C2> connection until you kill off one of the firewalls.
C2> DON'T FORGET TO PUT IN THAT SECURITY. I was talking to a young man
C2> Saturday night and he was getting free DSL in Dallas because someone
C2> forgot to setup username and password or even make the signal unseen
C2> to the neighbors on a D-Link wireless router just like yours. LOL.
C2> Jimmy
C2> 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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Best regards,
Jimmy mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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