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re: What wireless card for laptop
Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 2:04 pm
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Posted by Ari (1378 messages posted)


WEP is unfortunately not at all secure; it's easily hacked in just a few minutes 
these days.  If you're at all concerned about the privacy of your communications, 
WEP is completely pointless.  Pretty much the only thing it accomplishes is preventing 
people from accidentally joining your network instead of their own.



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On Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 1:47 pm, Rich wrote:
>Yes, 802.11g would be best, but I would use WEP for security rather than WPA.. I
>find the latter slows things down a bit. I just use my 10 digit phone number for
>the WEP code...(easy to remember!)




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re: What wireless card for laptop (Rich: Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 1:47 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-What wireless card for laptop (Barry: Wed, Jan 7, 2009, 12:53 am)
-re: What wireless card for laptop (Ricer46: Wed, Jan 7, 2009, 1:08 am)
-re: What wireless card for laptop (Barry: Wed, Jan 7, 2009, 6:12 am)
-re: What wireless card for laptop (Ricer46: Wed, Jan 7, 2009, 11:05 am)
-re: What wireless card for laptop (Barry: Wed, Jan 7, 2009, 12:46 pm)
-re: What wireless card for laptop (Ari: Wed, Jan 7, 2009, 5:30 pm)
*re: What wireless card for laptop (Barry: Wed, Jan 7, 2009, 11:02 pm)
-re: What wireless card for laptop (Rich: Thu, Jan 8, 2009, 1:47 pm)
*re: What wireless card for laptop (Ari: Thu, Jan 8, 2009, 2:04 pm)
*re: What wireless card for laptop (Barry: Thu, Jan 8, 2009, 9:18 pm)
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