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Securing a Wireless Access Point

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iSeriesCodePoet

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What have others done to secure their wireless access point? As of right now I have done the basics, disabled broadcast SSSID and enabled 128bit WEP. This is for residential but I don't want just anyone to use my internet. Would you consider this secure enough? What other steps might I take to make a good secure solution? Mike Wills
IBM iSeries (AS/400) Programmer
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mac filtering.. in other words, you configure the AP to only accept mac addresses that you specify. Removal of DHCP address assignment through the AP.. understanding that static IPs are a bit of a pain in the butt.

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I will have to dig into that more. I tried it once and had problems, that might have been due to the other changes I made as well. :-)

I will let you know my results. Mike Wills
IBM iSeries (AS/400) Programmer
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upgrade to 802.1x right now.
 
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