Ok, first off, I'll caveat this with saying I did some homework before buying a wireless router and setting it up on my home network - especially in regards to security. However, I'm still rather new, and have a couple things I'm a bit curious about.
So is the bandwidth provided by the wireless shared, as a hub would do? For example, will my wireless network start slowing as I add more and more wireless systems?
Finally, I've done the following to help secure the network: Disabled the SSID broadcast, changed the router password, enabled 64-bit encryption, and set it up for 802.11g only operation. Now, I know I could bump up the encryption to 128-bit, but how much added protection is that really going to give me? I assume that anyone who could get into a 64-bit encrypted network wouldn't have any problems getting into a 128-bit encrypted network - it would just take longer. Furthermore, I assumed there would be higher latency associated with the increased encryption, as more bits per packet were dedicated to the encryption. I could set up to allow access by MAC address, but figured that would (a) be useless as someone could spoof a MAC address, and (b), be something I'd have to reverse when I host a LAN party. Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to ask is if this is adequate security - I don't have anything of any REAL interest on my systems, but prefer to keep prying folks out.
...and if you've read this far, many thanks.
So is the bandwidth provided by the wireless shared, as a hub would do? For example, will my wireless network start slowing as I add more and more wireless systems?
Finally, I've done the following to help secure the network: Disabled the SSID broadcast, changed the router password, enabled 64-bit encryption, and set it up for 802.11g only operation. Now, I know I could bump up the encryption to 128-bit, but how much added protection is that really going to give me? I assume that anyone who could get into a 64-bit encrypted network wouldn't have any problems getting into a 128-bit encrypted network - it would just take longer. Furthermore, I assumed there would be higher latency associated with the increased encryption, as more bits per packet were dedicated to the encryption. I could set up to allow access by MAC address, but figured that would (a) be useless as someone could spoof a MAC address, and (b), be something I'd have to reverse when I host a LAN party. Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to ask is if this is adequate security - I don't have anything of any REAL interest on my systems, but prefer to keep prying folks out.
...and if you've read this far, many thanks.