[LINK] Wi-Fi

[Jan Whitaker]

At 05:16 PM 26/04/2011, Philip Argy wrote:
>I have 75 Cat 6 LAN outlets in my home, including in the boatshed 
>and the garage!  All were done during major renovations about 5 
>years ago when the whole house was being re-wired/re-plumbed, so the 
>extra cost of running a km or so of blue Cat 6 cable was 
>negligible.  And with my gigabit Ethernet switch I can have up to 16 
>outlets in concurrent use, which is enough to cover all of our 
>PC/printer/NAS/PVR needs for the time being without having to enable 
>the wireless gateway, which I enable for temporary purposes as 
>needed (with hard coded MAC addresses for our own laptops or) for 
>guests and then disable again (and on the odd occasion I enable it 
>for guests I use a long WPA-PSK passphrase which I key in and don't 
>allow them to see or save), and suppress the SSID.  Maybe obsessive 
>but I'm not a believer in trusted systems - only trustworthy systems!

I have a word for all that ---  ready?





Nerd!
Wow, Philip. That's industrial stuff. ;-)

Jan



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