[sclug] Reading Community Wireless

[Hamlesh Motah]

Essentially its giving everyone access to your LAN, unless you have set
it up not to of course ;) :)

Hamlesh Motah.

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-----Original Message-----
From: sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk [mailto:sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk] On
Behalf Of David Newcomb
Sent: 13 December 2004 18:08
To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [sclug] Reading Community Wireless



Tom Chance said:
> On Monday 13 Dec 2004 16:37, David Newcomb wrote:
>> Chris Aitken said:
>> > Is there much interest here? For a network of APs (running the
>> penguin),
>> > connected here & there to the internet?
>>
>> I have opened up my wireless connection so that anyone can access it.

>> It is located in: 
>> http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?pc=RG30+4LR&scale=25000
>> But I'm not sure what the range is as it's just LinkSys in my loft.
>
> I'd do the same with mine - at the moment it's locked down with an 
> ESSID, keys and MAC address filters - but I'm not sure it'd be worth 
> it given that it's
> only a home router on a 300k connection.
>
> Also, aren't there security implications to opening up your router 
> like that?

Almost certainly!

Regards,
David
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Managing Director
BigSoft Limited
Reading, UK
http://www.bigsoft.co.uk/


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