Wireless Security - Comments Page 2

Just a couple of thoughts on WEP and WPA, in the YMMV zone.

My wife has the only Mac in our house (we have two PCs running XP in addition). Due to differences in the way the Mac OS asks/asked for the WEP key in plaintext before scrambling it, we literally can't run WEP as we cannot establish consistent keys across all machines.

On the other hand, although I've tried WPA we had trouble with connections dropping out. I diagnosed this as due to something to do with the key exchange/refresh, after I and colleagues experienced exactly the same happening at work. Both sites have strong signals so that's not the reason.

Hi there! I was wondering if my provider can trace back the number of users (pc laptop, wifi enabled gadgets) that have accessed our router? and could they possible trace every internet activity as well? i've asked one of their customer service representatives and he said they don't have the information...

EDITOR'S NOTE: It's certainly posible, since by logging into your router, you can see the wifi connections yourself. But I don't know why they'd bother to do so. And if you've changed your router password, that should prevent anyone but you from logging in. As for your internet activity, everything you access is done via the ISP's server. So they COULD log it all...