Well, moving is a real sonofabitch. After a week on vacation, that turned out to be more stressful than relaxing (who the hell gives a ticket for 'Improper Start'?), we spent the last five or six days not sleeping. Packing, moving, unpacking (in the dark), getting utilities lined up, trying to go to work, The Wife's finishing up exams. It's been a fucking nightmare. It's December and as I write this I'm sweating. It's humid, but at the same time windy as all hell. I'm just glad we seem to have gotten all our belongings from one place to the other. Now if we could only remember which boxes we packed them in.
Oh, stealing people's wireless networks is way too easy. The connections tend to suck, but until the cable man comes, it'll have to work. Passwords people, they're good for your download speeds and personal security; and home networks are easy to secure. And by the fucking way, I think my neighbors are the last remaining netizens who still travel at an agonizingly slow 11Mbps.
More blogging later this weekend. That is, if anyone still visits this site. We seem to be absentee bloggers of late eh?
How exactly do you password protect a wireless connection? Ever since the across-the-street neighbors moved in my connection has been slow as crap. I need to tinker with it I guess.
Password protection is definitely important... if someone is surfing kiddie porn on your connection it's not HIS IP that shows up on the logs, it's your wireless router's.
Tiff- hit up LinkSys's site for a decent how to on the ABC's of securing your home network. So easy, so easy. If that doesn't do it for you, talk one of your techie buddies into coming over for dinner and drinks for trade. They'll eagerly oblige.
You can even set up your network to only accept certain MAC addresses, meaning it will only connect with specific and unique antennas/routers. Pretty damn cool.
Limiting the MAC addresses is *the* way to go. Also, don't broadcast the SSID, there's no sense in letting everyone in range know that your network is there.