Re: Best wireless router & cards for high-speed cable connection?

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

Earlier versions of WiFi cannot be easily secured. There are readily
available apps that can break them in a matter of seconds or minutes even
when using WEP. You need 802.11i or later.

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"AZ Woody" <Reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>The other thing about wireless, it it's often left "unsecured".   They did a
>news story here where a reporter and a guy with a laptop drove around
>various areas looking for open connections..  It was quite interesting.
>
>A chunk of enet cable won't be hacked unless someone's in you house and not
>a 100' away.
>
>
>"kony" <spam@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:jmfd81dojkui74mkq616rd4o3eoi5aaij7@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On Sun, 15 May 2005 00:59:35 GMT, newbee
>> <wireless@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> >P.S. Second question, please: What would be the best way to not only
>> >connect that 2nd computer to the Internet but also to connect the TV
>> >in that room to my main Media Center computer? Dell offers a solution
>> >(http://snipurl.com/ewgq), but the $399 seems excessive (perhaps I'm
>> >wrong, of course).
>>
>> The best solution there is to forget that you have the media
>> center PC and connect the other one to the TV via video card
>> with TV-Out, and connect the two systems by wire, not
>> wireless.  Wireless will inherantly be slower and suject to
>> occasional dropouts.  The slower part also reduces the
>> quality you can send to the TV from the media center PC, but
>> is again a reason not to use low-quality high compression
>> rather pulling the files across the wired lan to be played
>> by the PC next to the TV.
>>
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