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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
I've had some probs getting WEP to work, since I had mixed computer flavors in the house (mac/pc). I opted for "allow in only these specified machine numbers" protection. Is there any reason this is a bad idea?
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You should still be able to use some form of encryption (WPA is stronger than WEP, so if you have the option to use WPA, go for that) - we have a mix of Macs and PCs (as well as smart phones, games consoles, and a brace of N800s) in the house, and use WPA quite happily. We also use MAC
addresses(*), because we're paranoid
I can't think of a good reason why it would be a bad idea to control access by MAC address. It can get annoying if you have a lot of devices to add, but it is reasonably secure (not completely, nothing is).
(* MAC(***) addresses are the machine numbers, or more accurately the network card(**) identifiers, that each network device has. It has nothing to do with Apple Mac computers)
(** computers etc that connect wirelessly still have a network card of sorts)
(*** It stands for Media Access Control. And yes I know I've played silly buggers with the order of the footnotes
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