wireless and wardriving

[BriGy86]

i don't really know a whole lot about wireless, so how does a person go about protecting them selves from war driving and what not

my friend has a wireless router in her house, but isn't using the wireless function, so how could i make sure no one gets in or uses her connection?

 

[Moe Madness]

disable wireless on the router.

 

[Praetor]

Aside from that, I'd vote for disabling the SSID broadcast and using WPA or WEP to help prevent access from the outside.

 

[BriGy86]

ok, those are all very good ideas.... but how do i do that?

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: BriGy86
ok, those are all very good ideas.... but how do i do that?

Since you are Now Knowledgeable you can read the Router?s Manuel and disable it.

Hard for us to Guess what your friend has!

:sun:

 

[BriGy86]

okie dokie, thank you

 

[elfnumber1]

What are some programs one could use to "wardrive?" I'm trying to position my wireless router in a place with least interference... So far, I can only recall using Boingo.

-elf

 

[Adam7]

Originally posted by: elfnumber1
What are some programs one could use to "wardrive?" I'm trying to position my wireless router in a place with least interference... So far, I can only recall using Boingo.

-elf

netstumbler

 

[mboy]

Use WPA. If you can not, then use WEP ( I advise against it and get what u need to to allow WPA).

SSID broadcast disabling and MAC filtering are worthless.