internet bandwidth management hardware?

one BIG peice of advice..
due to new "statistical analysis" tools for cracking WEP, it can be done in a matter of hours instead of days or weeks.
so, for the love of all that is secure, use WPA with radius (or a realllllly long pre-shared key)
 
hmph. this town has nobody even using any wifi, I don't think...

but I was thinking of going with VPN-over-WIFI along with 256 bit WEP, along with MAC limiting...
 
theres overkill (your idea) and then there's OVERKILL (my idea).

wpa-aes->radius with long key = uncrackable by any current means..

256 bit wep? probably crackable, mac filtering? pfft. VPN? PPTP can be cracked same as WEP over time.

eh, no matter what you end up doing, if you want security (useless in kansas) use radius.

though, WPA-PSK would get you by just fine in most cases.
 
hehe there is no one within signal range right now... and since I moved in. I could run wide open with a 'someone hooked up' alarm and be fine...
 
how do I know Ill be fine? when I was running my system as a router and didnt have a use for my D link (its running as router again) I had it set up as a wide open WAP and nobody even connected to it and got a DHCP address. it was wide open on default channels (searching for a channel) serving up DHCP for a couple months just begging for a connect and nobody ever connected. it was hooked to nothing save when I hooked it to my box once in a while to check on it. can we say honeypot without a fly around to get caught?
 
Berg - (bûrg) - A town so small, remote and full of technically un-savvy people that someone can leave a wireless access point wide open for months and not even get logged on-to.. see also: podunk

Heh...just kidding. I once lived in a town with a population of 39. It had one traffic light. And not one of those fancy "green-yellow-red" things neither...nossir! One of those "yellow-two-ways and red-the-other-two" flashers! Just couldn't resist the barb...
 
the crazy-oh-so-cool part?
this town has a pizza hut (they dont do delivery, so cruel *cry*)
wireless broadband at 1.5/1.5Mbit
DSL
cable at 4Mbit or 5Mbit/768Kbit
a full size grocery store (a bit expensive but its good still)
a decent hardware store that even sells good zipties, and will special order stuff for me!
a Dairy Queen! mmmm ice cream and hamburgers oh my (my waisline hates them - and me! :()
a place that sells my favorite candy bar, Milky Way Midnight! (for 80 cents a pop:eek::mad: )
a **RESALE SHOP** that sells dresses that fit me that I actually like! (no granny stuff yay! its hard to find stuff in my size that isnt granny stuff in resale shops, im 6'1"...)

I love it here.

anyways I still wanna know what a good layer 2 or 3 switch would be... any good brands / models and any to stay away from? im so clueless and I dont wanna end up buying one only to kick myself later...
 
Man, that's one seriously well-wired berg!
It's all pro's and con's. The little town I used to live in? One gas station, one firehouse, and one "mom-and-pop" store that nobody went to because it was so expensive. But the whole time we lived there:
We never once locked the house.
We left the keys in the car...y'know; in case someone needed to move it!
We (us kids) were NEVER in the house on a sunny day...there were BB guns and bows to shoot, woods to be explored, toboggans to be overloaded...heck, even on a crappy day Mom might not let us in!
If we ever got bored we'd stop in at one of the farms along our road...they'd ALWAYS have something we could do!
God I'm turning into an old fart...

Sorry about the whole "not even remotely close to being near the topic" thing...
 
LadyJaqie said:
wow! now for the ouch part...how much?
Click to expand...

m0n0wall is a bsd based *i believe its bsd* router software with bandwidth management built it.

you don't even need a hdd.. just a cdrom and a floppy to save the config files..
 
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