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Message: <blockquote data-quote="azhrei_fje" data-source="post: 2238702" data-attributes="member: 12966">Wireless is great if you either (a) know how to properly secure it (and I mean WEP, not the old stuff), or (b) want to share your connection with the rest of the world.But be aware that going wireless really opens you up to more viruses and such if you are in an area with neighbors close by, such as a townhouse or apartment.  On every wireless router I've seen, the wireless defaults to allowing connections to the wired ports, meaning that wireless users can get to your other machines.This isn't a big deal if you keep your Quicken accounts and Excel expense reports off the network, but otherwise...  I've got a complicated setup in my home office because my wife wants 'net connectivity, but I won't let her put Quicken, TurboTax, or our accounting/invoicing machine anywhere near the router.  So I have a second router which does not allow any incoming connections and my office computers are behind that.  Her laptop is outside that network so that she can get to the 'net.  And when she's doing our accounting, she comes into my office and sits at one of my Linux machines. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />One of these days I'll setup a FreeRADIUS server and run WEP and that will prevent using the wireless AP for anything except connecting to an authenticator.  And the authenticator will forward legitimate traffic to the 'net.  Others won't be able to sniff packets (WEP is pretty good) and I won't be concerned about her machine exposing our accounting information to the world.  Because Windoze will be the only weak link at that point, I'll be switching her over to Linux -- she even bought her own "Linux for Dummies" book at Borders a few weeks ago. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> In summary, if you're going to use wireless, be careful.  Be very careful. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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