02-18-2006, 08:49 AM
I can't believe you are actually sugesting that he not use an access control. It is completely irresponsible to not lock your network from unauthorized access. What if someone drove by in their van and looked up kiddie porn using his connection? Guess who's door they would come knocking down? Think about all his financial or personal information that is on his machine. Do you want anyone to be able to drive by and have free reign on his network? I don't think so.
MAC filtering is IMO the easiest and safest way to go for locking down the network. You put your cards MAC in and that is the only one who can get on the wireless. The MAC address, as said before, is probably printed on the card. You may have to crack open the case to see what it is. On my Netgear router when you go to setup the MAC filtering it shows a list of computer names and their mac addresses that are currently connected. Just pick from that list, if your router supports it.
If he is concerned about people eaves dropping on his transmissions, I would also use a WEP key, the stronger the better.
MAC filtering is IMO the easiest and safest way to go for locking down the network. You put your cards MAC in and that is the only one who can get on the wireless. The MAC address, as said before, is probably printed on the card. You may have to crack open the case to see what it is. On my Netgear router when you go to setup the MAC filtering it shows a list of computer names and their mac addresses that are currently connected. Just pick from that list, if your router supports it.
If he is concerned about people eaves dropping on his transmissions, I would also use a WEP key, the stronger the better.