Re: [NTLK] Deciding between wireless or ethernet card with dongle

In addition to WEP you can also not broadcast your SSID, limit to
known Mac addresses and require password to access other computers on
your network.

Won't stop a serious hacker but adds to the security.

Wired and wireless ethernet setups are about the same difficulty.
More difficult is sorting out which drivers or patches you need.
I use Lucent turbo silver upgraded to gold.

Woody

On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Andrew Beals wrote:

> Ether + dongle is just easier. The wifi driver only works with 40-bit
> encryption in my experience, which is better than none, but easy
> enough to get around. It's also fiddly…not that the Newt's DHCP isn't
> fiddly to begin with. Some wireless joints require you to sign in on
> a SSL-encrypted page - won't work with a Newt. Some play fancy
> javascript games - again, won't work. Generic "linksys" or "netgear"
> APs will work just fine, of course.
>

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