Middle aged femals, you say. There's a study that indicates woman, in a group, sync up their periods. Consider that a bit of trivia and a warning.

 

Crap..I just tried to set a new WEP password and made it too short. Can't connect anymore. PLUS...I just broke the reset button...

 

Time to pop the case and execute a mod to fix the reset button.
Take your time and don't get too fustrated. There's always tomorrow. And stop watching that d@mn porn. lmao

 

Thanks for all of your insight..lol This is under warranty, so it's going back to Apple tomorrow!

 

no such thing as a secure wireless system. You can put Internet security and beef up your firewall but anyone will be able to accses your internet accses when in range.

 

I noticed this when I was driving through my town with my iPaq (with intergrated 802.11b turned on). I picked up no fewer than 15 separate wireless networks on just two streets - I didn't try using them though. 75% of these had either "Linksys" or "Netgear" as the SSID meaning to me that they had not changed the factory settings and were running no security at all.

 

well if you have wep encrypt. enabled and ssid broadcast disabled you'd have to be a pretty complished/experienced borderline professional hacker.....if you dont then you have no business using a wireless router, ex. my father...hehe

 

I've given up on this. The school won this time. A BRAND NEW access point is for sale in the for sale section!!!!

 

true. but think about it. how many laymen out there even know what this encryption is, that there router can even enable it and then acually use it. Most people out there don't know anything about there equipment. simply turn it on, it works and go on with life. Even whenwith WEP enabled I refer to my previouse statment. Even though I can't get onto another connected computer I, you or anyone with a wireless connector can still get onto the internet using their conncetion since the WAN conncetion under most condidtions is unfiltered and unencrypted. then there is the leagal and or moral issue but I won't go there.

 

Greetings,
In my experience it takes almost 8 hrs of stealing packets to crack a WEP Key. I would doubt the guy cracked your key, but he is scared of folks jumping onto your AP.
He is obviously using some type of software to scan the network and identify all the users and more importantly for you equipment.
The are ways to defeat the scanners (passive firewall which blocks inbound requests) but they cost a few bucks. You could consider a router with MAC cloning software in front of the AP. Also configure the router to block all inbound requests. Most routers, wehn probed, look like they are a LINUX or UNIX box, which probably would not throw up flags to your net admin.

to all of you work dudes, all I say is FFFFFFFF

There are 11 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary, those that don't and the rest of us.

 

Yeah same here. I can get the laptop out with netstumbler and find all kinds of open AP's. Around 80% of them are unsecure. I even found a couple of banks that were wide open. Crazy eh?