Fred Langa's articles and mailing list are a great source for info on many
PC subjects.
Powerline networking may or may not work in this situation. It sounded like
he was looking for a network link between two separate buildings. This can
be very problematic with AC poweline networking.

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I lost the beginning of this thread, but Fred Langa has a lot of good=20
information on wireless security and pointers to more information and what =

you can do to make wireless more secure.

Here's one good general article:

http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021031S0004

An alternative to wireless is "powerline" networking.  Fred Langa has an=20
article on "powerline" networking at:

=A0http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2003/2003-01-16.htm

Christopher

Christopher J Chaltain
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Keith,
Depending on how worried you want to be about others having access to your
internet account, you would probably want to be sure that you:

1. have a firewall program installed on the network;

2. look into having the wireless network encripted.

Otherwise it can be possible for casual passers by with wireless networks on
their handhelds etc. to have at your account, and possibly even your
computers.

Sorry I don't know details about these kinds of settups, and maybe you're in
an area where such urban chaos isn't a big issue.

luck
tom Fowle


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