lan security.

[dragon]

i plan to leave a wireless ap (router) open for anyone who wants to connect and play me at network games while im away at a college course (there not much else to do in the evenings) now its not going to be connected to the internet or anything

just my computer, my mates computer and anyone else in range who wishes to join in.

now my pc is firewalled and has antivirus so hopefully that will keep people from doing things they shouldnt...


is there anything else i should do to keep my laptop safe? (apart form encypt the network becuase that would defy the point)

also is the router itself in any danger? < even if someone did somehow guess my password for it could they do any damage to it?

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by dragon

i plan to leave a wireless ap (router) open for anyone who wants to connect and play me at network games while im away at a college course (there not much else to do in the evenings) now its not going to be connected to the internet or anything

just my computer, my mates computer and anyone else in range who wishes to join in.

now my pc is firewalled and has antivirus so hopefully that will keep people from doing things they shouldnt...


is there anything else i should do to keep my laptop safe? (apart form encypt the network becuase that would defy the point)

also is the router itself in any danger? < even if someone did somehow guess my password for it could they do any damage to it?

Why don't you make the password something no-one will ever guess? Eliminate that worry.......

[The_real_dj]

some wireless aps have somthing called a Privacy Separator. This means that any wireless clients cant connect to other wireless clients.
So as long as one of the wired pcs was running the game server all the wireless pcs would be able to connect to that but not to any wireless devices connected to your wireless ap.
as for damage to the router there is nothing anyone could really do to damage it. If they did get in and screw up the config they usually have a reset button on them!

Edit: good idea ramrod, you are not gonna have to type this password in often so why not make it something silly like 5fg@£rG FS#^& etc

[ian@huth]

5fg@£rG FS#^& ? Hey that's my password, you calling it silly?

[The_real_dj]

youve got the same password as me??? im sure someones cleaning out my bank account right about now!!

[Gareth]

5fg@£rG FS#^& ...?!? Me three! D'oh!

[goldchip]

Your machine should be using an OS that uses the NTFS file system, then use accounts with hard to guesse passwords. You can go into folder options and remove simple fielsharing - that will give u granular control over security of the filesystem.

[dragon]

Originally Posted by The_real_dj

as for damage to the router there is nothing anyone could really do to damage

id be a bit worried if they could guess the password so it should be ok

and yes router has a reset button and i know it works... (changed the pw then relised i couldnt get back in must have made the same typo in password and confirm pass)