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Old 25-07-2007, 23:56   #4
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Re: Securing wireless

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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees View Post
That was my thinking, that with hiding the SSID and MAC filtering would negate the requirement for WEP/WPA encryption and therefore potentially help to increase the wireless throughput
How much throughput do you want (and what do you want if for)? Wireless (@ 54 Mb/s ideally) is still considerable faster than your internet connection, so disabling WEP/WPA won't speed up your browsing/downloads. If you're interested in moving large files over your network swiftly you would gain much more by ditching wireless altogether and going with old-fashioned Cat-5.
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