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Not so much 'warned against'. 'Strongly discouraged' might be more accurate.
Liam, assuming you are still getting interference problems from your neighbors and if you haven't done this already, you might try changing the wireless channel your router is using. The default is Ch 6.
The prospect of wardriving has startled me into updating the firmware on my Linksys so now it acts more like a Cisco product. Sweet. Anyone understand what the WPA-RADIUS option might entail and whether that's better than the WPA-Shared Key?
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I think the difference would be that it can either broadcast a normal signal to a certain radius, or it can broadcast a secure signal that the cards with a certain key can access. That's just guesswork on my part, though.
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RADIUS is a service for authenticating clients through an external (remote) server instead of directly through a WiFi router. It's not really intended for home network use.
(But I would think you, too, were cool.)
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I have changed the channel to 6, actually (since the default channel over here is 11). I'll try changing it again. It does seem to get worse near the TV, which seems a bit odd. I know I could just try turning off the TV and seeing if that makes a difference, but, er, I haven't.
Oh, and which is better? The shared key system, or the one where you give your NAP address (or whatever it is) to the router and configure it to only let those specific computers on?
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Are you talking about RADIUS, Liam? Maybe you're talking about wireless MAC filtering. Anyway you can do both. But Cartman will think you're cool if you can work out how to make RADIUS work on your setup. I figured out I'd need a warranty-voiding firmware upgrade and even then it's dicey. (maybe if Cartman would thik I was 'too cool' instead of just 'cool, also') Have to read more first. Maybe do some tests.
Be nice if my friggin' DSL was working right, though. According to SBC's speed test I've got 2.4Mbs down[/i], 0bps up. Fun.
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Yes.
Anyway, since MAC addresses are actually quite trivial to spoof (for anyone driving around late at night with a laptop and a craving for bandwidth), there isn't that much point to proactively filtering out all traffic from non-permitted ones. Still, it'd prevent people from connecting to your AP with just any MAC, which is always a plus.
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