How to make my house wireless

[minsbang]

An intruder can monitor 802.11 frames that are exchanged over the wireless network.

Be careful...

 

[zahntech]

Anything that is transmitted over radio waves can be received by someone and possibly decoded by them....radio waves are dangerous!! ..that's why I wear proper headgear!!

 

[hoops7k]

And none of us NSXPrime patrons would ever snag someone else's wireless signal now would we?


I would just caution anyone using someone else's wireless access point. In 99% of the cases, this is a non-issue ... BUT.. some hackers purposefully set up a wide-open AP in public places and then snoop and log all traffic passing through their router. This is ridiculously easy to do, and the data can then later be parsed to check for unencrypted login/passwords in the raw packets. Usually your important logins (eg. banks) are on secure connections which cannot be trivially decoded, but everything else is fair game. This is another good reason to have a unique password for your secure connections, so someone doesn't snoop your NSXprime password for example and then find it also works for your online bank or trading acct!


Well, yes you can go to Best Buy, but their prices arent so good.


BTW, I wasn't endorsing Best Buy... it just happens to be easily accessible for most people and has a decent selection. There are definitely cheaper places, eg. Tiger Direct etc.

I wish google would of continued with there secure acess vpn..It was secure anywhere you went no matter who's connection you used.Too many people downloaded it and used and now it is only available at certain places.....