[dba-Tech] OT: Wireless network (sort of)

So you think some hacker's gpnna go through all that hassle like you did 
just to get into your network? They don't have time for that !

<BIG GRIN>

Have a look at;

http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101191.asp

You want to set it to only allow your wireless device to connect. Not sure 
how you do that on your router.

See Item #2 under Basic Security Practices in the linked page.

Gary Kjos
garykjos at hotmail.com





>From: "John Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
>Reply-To: Discussion of Hardware and Software 
>issues<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>To: "Database Advisors Inc. \(Tech\)" <Dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com>,   
>"AccessD" <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
>Subject: [dba-Tech] OT: Wireless network (sort of)
>Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:39:45 -0500
>
>I ordered a Netgear MR814v2 Wireless router a couple of weeks ago.  I 
>needed
>to expand my 4 port router (I had 5 things I kept needing to plug in) and
>the Netgear was on sale at www.Newegg.com at the time.  I then tried and
>failed to install a linksys WPC11v2.5 I had laying around, so I ordered a
>dlink dwl-650 that was on sale (rebate) at www.newegg.com.  Long story
>short, it didn't work.  Long story a little longer, a very long call to
>dlink tech support, did not solve the problem.
>
>Or maaaaaybe it did.  After failing to figure anything out, they 
>recommended
>that I upgrade my laptop bios.  It's an ancient (now) 233mhz PII Toshiba
>Satellite 4000 that I bought with my first paycheck from my trip to work 
>for
>Mr. Breen in Dublin Ireland back in hmmm..... November 1997?  Getting a bit
>long in the tooth, truth be told.
>
>The bios upgrade and also the old "turn off NAV before installing etc.  And
>"oh by the way, our card requires at least a 300 mhz processor.  So I
>uninstalled, upgraded to the latest bios (May 2000?), turned off NAV,
>reinstalled the drivers and re-installed the card.  Still no joy.  The site
>survey showed no transmitters, and dlink tech support assured me that if
>there was a transmitter I would see it regardless.
>
>Ignorant liars!
>
>Went back in and reconfigured the card in the laptop for channel 11 (it
>defaulted to 3 and the router was on 11), played around with a couple of
>other things and boom, I see a transmitter.  Went in to the router config
>page and changed the SSID and sure enough the thing I'm seeing on the 
>laptop
>changes to match!  Still no connection though.
>
>Rebooted, played around some more and suddenly (no clear idea why) I have a
>wireless connection, can browse my network and see the web.  Yeaaaaa.
>
>Moral of the story, tech support generally sucks, play around, don't quit,
>and eventually the gods will reward you.  Or not.
>
>Now, I need to know what to do to tighten this thing up so that others 
>can't
>see my network.  I'm a bit afraid to touch anything since I don't really
>know what I did to finally get it running.
>
>Can anyone walk me through tightening this up?
>
>John W. Colby
>www.colbyconsulting.com
>
>
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