Hi Geraldine,

Virtually all wireless products support encryption to prevent unauthorized
access unless they know the encryption keys. The most common method is WEP
(Wired Equivalency Privacy) encryption, and is pretty much standard among
the major vendors od wireless hardware. I recommend using 128 bit for
maximum protection (64 bit is also usually available). Just make sure you
use the EXACT same keys (or passphrase to generate the keys) and settings
both on your router and your wireless interfaces on your laptops.

Russ Poffenberger
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Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 1:43 PM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] router security


I am running Windows XP and have a Linksys wireless access point router
hooked up so that my husband and myself can access the internet with our
notebooks.  What do I have to do so that nobody in the neighborhood or
sitting outside our house could hook up to my connection?  I would
appreciate any help you might be able to give me.

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