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

[Art Todesco <actodesco@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is a very good point.  My Linksys router does
both wired and wireless.  I bought it after lightening
destroyed the old "wired-only" router because it
was only $10 more and there would probably be a
laptop coming soon.  I generally shut off the
wireless.  It is now on because I have a borrowed
laptop.
I noticed, with the laptop, there are 4 networks
accessable in my neighborhood.  Mine was secured
both with WEP and MAC address.  One only had WEP.
  The other 2 were completely open.  I could
access their internet connection with no problem.
  I assume their firewall was on, but I didn't try
hacking.
People just don't understand.  BTW, my 2nd
computer is connected via a wired connection.

AZ Woody 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.
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> "kony" <spam@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>On Sun, 15 May 2005 00:59:35 GMT, newbee
>><wireless@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>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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