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Vegas_Matt

Vegas_Matt

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I've been hacked! I noticed my iphone wasn't connecting to my wifi lately and thought nothing of it. everything else in my house is hardwired to my router. Until just the other day when i go to connect to my laptop and realize there's a connection with a name very similar to mine (mine was "tehinterwebz" there's was "theinterNET"). And my passwords changed! I'm freakin pissed. so i hard start my router and decide to call it a night. the next day i get on to change the settings again and my internet got shut off. Woman living with me forgot about the bill for two months and they cut me off. The worst part about it is i WAS going to launch a website for a customer here in two days and even if i paid it today i can't access the internet for 72 business hours after the payment is posted. FML
 


I dont broadcast my SSID.... ie, if you "search for a network" mine won't come up. You have to manually type it in and search for it.

Jay
 


running 3rd party software on a linksys router allows you to limit how far the wireless signal is sent out....I caught this guy bumping off mine, he was using mine to download torrents and then his for internet connection (bandwidth hog). So I nailed his network and every computer on it. No one has touched my **** since then, I don't broadcast my SSID anymore since then.
 
This is why using WEP is a complete fail in and of itself. WPA2 or bust. I can hack a WEP network in less than 2 minutes provided there's a client connected (which there usually is). Also, hiding the SSID only hides the visible SSID and not the 'invisible' BSSID. Since the MAC of the AP (BSSID) is always available even when the SSID is hidden, it's always possible to connect to the network because you instead provide the BSSID over the SSID.

All you have to do to hack WEP is listen to the traffic going to and from the AP. Once you've identified a client that is connected to the AP you send it a disconnect and listen for it to reconnect (which will happen inevitably). Since the WEP key is broadcast in clear hex it's just as unsafe as FTP, and anyone listening in (including you) is able to capture the packets and gain knowledge of the WEP key. This is why I have access to 2 of my neighbors' WLANs LOL though I never connect to them, I just did it for fun.

Long story short, never use WEP, always use WPA2. Regular WPA is good too but it has some security flaws in the handshaking process which allow for the same type of hack to occur to a certain extent, but have been addressed in WPA2.

I also recommend changing your router username and password so if someone does get in they can't **** you.
 


Wired is always the best. Every room in my house has an ethernet jack that gets run down to the basement via cat5e to my gigabit smart switch. But not everyone is interested in doing things the professional way (or can't do it for one reason or another), and would much rather just set up a wireless network.
 


matt5112 said:
wire is the only way to guarantee zero lost packets.
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Unless you're an idiot and make a cable run > 100m.

01GTP said:
Live in the boonies where no one is close enough to get your signal.
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^ this. However 802.11n reaches pretty damn far, and although I only have a few neighbors I'm still ocassionally see this wireless n network from somewhere nearby. Also I'd like to add that to function at full speed you need to be connected to a wireless n network with WPA2 :D
 
well funny thing you can't buy a router without it being wireless, i have an E3000 and the first time i set it up i did it manually, the second time i let a 3rd party installer set it up and they chose every single setting for me, the password type, names, passwords, and i had to reset everything.

I was running a WPA2, and everything i have is wired i should just not enable the wifi at all.... lesson learned i guess?

matt5112 said:
wire is the only way to guarantee zero lost packets.
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Funny cuz i keep a packet tracer on my computer i just haven't gotten around to setting it back up since the last time i redid the computer.

...Turns out a 9 year old laptop is starting to show its age
 
I don't buy Linksys anymore. After Cisco bought them they trashed the name by cutting the flash and RAM to cut costs, but the E3000 does seem to have respectable specs. I prefer my Netgear WNDR-3700 though, and soon I'll have a Buffalo WZR-G300NH. You should load up DD-WRT onto that E3000, it'll change it from super gay to super awesome. Stock Linksys firmware is a pile of ****.
 
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