I’m stealing a page from ’s home network for this one, but Friday I improved my wireless network’s security a bit. I’ve been using a regular WEP key to keep strangers from coming in to my wireless, but if at all possible, I’d rather people not even know the network is there. So today I turned off broadcasting, disabled WEP, and started using an allow list of MAC addresses. For now it’s just my laptop and my Wii, but I expect that this will help keep things in check as far as who comes in and who even knows I’m around.
One issue I’m having is that my MacBook Pro doesn’t seem to reconnect to the network once it’s been asleep, even though it’s in the list of preferred networks; top of the list, in fact. Whenever it wakes up, I have to explicitly rejoin the network. I’ve looked a little bit online, but I’m going to need to do some more searching to see if there’s a solution out there. I’ve never had this issue at Brian’s, but he hasn’t been around for me to ask any questions. Maybe after this weekend I’ll get a chance to work it out. Until then, I’m already feeling more comfortable with my network security at home.
Update: After and listening to an and talking with some people at work, it would appear that what I’ve done is not very secure after all. It’ll stop any casual user, but beyond that it’s easily spoofable. I’m going to take a couple more steps - enable WPA and disable administration from wireless connections. It appears that, by its very nature, wireless is a pretty insecure method of connectivity - it’s just so convenient!
Also, I just remembered that I need to add my DS and PSP MAC addresses to the allow list or I won’t be able to do any more gaming on them either. That’d be no good.
Update 2: I can’t test it right now, but I’m going to try on the MBP and start fresh. Everything will be seamless soon.
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