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Story: 10 ways to wireless security

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Hi,
I regard myself as tolerably PC literate and act as the PC 'help desk' for my village. In your opening line you state state 'wireless networking is easy to set up'. I agree. However, I suggest you should have then said setting up wireless security is a nightmare and takes us back to the worst days of poor instructions and indecipherable geeky words. There is no common methodology for setting up security. If you get it wrong it can be incredibly difficult to go back and start again because you cannot get the laptop to talk to the router to make the changes. OK, I hear you say connect via an ethernet/USB cable, Where does it tell you to do this - usually by thought transfer or similar.
My advice to most people is enable wirelss securituy at your peril. It might work for a while then you go out log on to somewhere else and guess what, you get home and you cannot log on no matter what you do unless you remove all security and start again.
I would plead for a real campaign to make the wireless router companies write user 'wizards' which hide all the geeky stuff and make it simple to set up. Llike you I do believe it is necessary to enable security. However, for the moment in our quiet rural village its open house for wirelss users.
Simon
scwyatt@tiscali.co.uk

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