WPA2 am I safe?

[Laughingman12]

I enable WPA2 and a really long key with combinations of letters and numbers. Should this stop drive by intruders?

 

[JackMDS]

There are No guarantees but as far as personal system peer-to-peer Network, WPA2 is as good as it gets for the next few years.

Need more you have to switch to a RADIUS Server.

http://www.ezlan.net/wpa_wep.html

 

[cmetz]

Laughingman12, that is as good a job at securing things as you can easily do. The biggest risk you have left is an exploit against your NIC / router's wireless driver.

 

[nweaver]

yeah, as stated above, you are good. The other thing to remember is that why would they bother trying to hack your WPA2 (currently not really hackable, only brute forcing the key, which would be VERY hard with a random alphanumaric key) when you have 3 neighbors broadcasting "linksys" with no encryption.

 

[marulee]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
There are No guarantees but as far as personal system peer-to-peer Network, WPA2 is as good as it gets for the next few years.

Need more you have to switch to a RADIUS Server.

http://www.ezlan.net/wpa_wep.html

WPA should be more than enough for now. Just for your safety, make sure you clear the internet caches frequently.

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: marulee

Originally posted by: JackMDS
There are No guarantees but as far as personal system peer-to-peer Network, WPA2 is as good as it gets for the next few years.

Need more you have to switch to a RADIUS Server.

http://www.ezlan.net/wpa_wep.html

WPA should be more than enough for now. Just for your safety, make sure you clear the internet caches frequently.

what does clearing browser caches have anything to do with wireless security?

 

[Tegeril]

It has nothing to do with wireless security.

 

[Fraggable]

When I set up a wireless network for someone, I usually employ MAC filtering, WPA2, disable SSID broadcast, and change the IP of the router to something random, rather than 192.168.0.1 or whatever it may be, and of course change the default password on the router. I've never had any complaints and I'm confident my networks are a whole lot more secure than the average idiots'.

 

[jlazzaro]

i dont worry about mac filtering, ssid broadcasting, or the router address...there all more of a headache than a security feature. if someone can actually crack my WPA2 security, they wont have any problems getting by the other mechanisms.

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: jlazzaro
i dont worry about mac filtering, ssid broadcasting, or the router address...there all more of a headache than a security feature. if someone can actually crack my WPA2 security, they wont have any problems getting by the other mechanisms.

indeed....Mac filtering and non broadcasting SSID are cake to bypass. Changing the IP is worthless as well, if you have DHCP enabled on the network. Changing the default password is good though.

 

[watdahel]

Will using a long WPA2 password slowdown my websurfing?

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: erwin1978
Will using a long WPA2 password slowdown my websurfing?

No way. Nope.