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Originally Posted by Zeph
They did? If so that's a bit of an oxymoron, have they checked the security on their Operating Systems lately?
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Oops my bad i obviously got that wrong, of course microsoft support wireless technology with win xp, doh!, slaps his forhead, haha!. It was some time ago, i just about remember reading article/s on shields UP site, well actually it was the GRC Gibson Research Corporation Home page, security issues with win xp, open sockets, UpNp etc etc. I remember reading an article somwhere else on the internet with regards to gates & microsoft and security issues with wireless technology and there operating system, like i said obviously they offer support as in it's easy to setup in xp, but the security side is down to the end user, blah blah blah. Anyway i am a noob to wireless technology and setting it up for security (no outsiders in please, haha!) but i had a go at it today. I'm using my main pc as the access point, i have the asus p5b dlx wifi-ap motherboard, it has the 3-in-1 wireless LAN adapter built in, later on in the year i maybe purchasing a laptop? for use around the home. So anyway after a short while i was suprised how fairly easy it is to setup, i still had some problems, but quite shocked at seeing how many people have unsecured networks. There were four other networks that i could see and only two was showing secured, one of them was mine. Anyway like i said after a while i was able to connect and browse the internet using the wireless mode, but the thing is it was connected by a belkin 54 router/network but i'm using a wireless D-link router, so was i using that persons connection/bandwidth? or was it some sort of error report in windows when it said i was connected at 36kbps? with belkin 54. I could see the belkin 54 in the range window along with others.