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Re: Do you leave your wifi open?

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:30 pm
by impulse()
I'm forced to leave mine open as I have a Fedora Core 5 box wirelessly linked and it hates encryption. The router has DHCP turned off and my network is No-NAT and I know my neighbours well enough to know they don't know how to set up a PC with No-NAT. Also they don't have what IPs are free on my network.

Re: Do you leave your wifi open?

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:22 pm
by Josh1billion
Chalks wrote:If I didn't have a printer on my network, I would leave it open. Since I DO have a printer, I keep it protected. I just don't want some random person printing reams of pr0n on my printer "for the lulz". Otherwise, I'm all for open networks.
lol this "for the lulz" thing has had me lolzing since I first read it a day or two ago. :)

Re: Do you leave your wifi open?

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:41 pm
by Kieran Huggins
I think you can segregate networks with DD-WRT and a compatible router. The WRT54GL certainly qualifies, as do many others apparently!

Re: Do you leave your wifi open?

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:16 pm
by RobertGonzalez
I leave my network totally closed. Always. Sometimes I even lock myself out just to see if I am secure enough.

Re: Do you leave your wifi open?

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:48 pm
by guitarlvr
This is precisely what this company is trying to do. keep a segment of your network unprotected for people to use and keep the rest secured.

Re: Do you leave your wifi open?

Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:55 pm
by pickle
Mine's locked down. It's already pretty pathetic - I can't listen to radio while my roommate plays XBox Live. Any other hangers-on would just slow us down even more. Plus, I don't want to be associated with an IP that could be used for any illegal activity I'm not aware of.

Re: Do you leave your wifi open?

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:31 am
by shiznatix
i lock mine down but only because my ISP is horrible and I have enough trouble downloading a torrent at moderate speeds while browsing the internet and there are 3 people in my apartment all using it so it just gets crushed sometimes.

Anyway, the college across the street offers open wifi that you can get from my apartment so if someone in my building wants to get on some free wireless, its already available.

Re: Do you leave your wifi open?

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:45 am
by mattcooper
I used to have an open-door policy to this but lately someone has been abusing my hospitality and ruining my bandwidth by streaming something constantly, which drove me absolutely mental. In fact, I was at first convinced it was a provider problem and angrily got on the phone to my ISP to find out why it was taking up to five minutes to download a couple of megs; they said that nothing was wrong. I only realized what was going on when I saw the lights flashing madly on the modem, even though my machine was switched off.

I'm secured now and a much happier chappy for it :)