Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 09:17 PM 9/9/2005 -0400, Don Parris (webdev@matheteuo.org) wrote:
I'd like to setup at least two, maybe two boxes and a Dell Latitude C610 laptop on a wireless LAN - preferably with SUSE 10.0 (I'm playing with beta 4 now).
(snip) Wireless is reckless! Anyone driving by the house, as well as close neighbors, can tap into your wireless network. Using a small Yagi antenna, people as far as a quarter mile away may be able to get in. The antenna is readily available from outfits like Cushcraft. A wired LAN is much safer.
While this is true for unencrypted WLAN's, I doubt if this claim holds water for the serious encryption technology modern wireless hardware offers. Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704