Originally Posted by
Jeeves
Perhaps I am naive, but what is the big deal if someone is poaching off your WiFi/router. Is it mainly a security issue or are they impacting speed/performance or both. My unprotected WiFi is exposed to my 88 year old neighbor on the left and my neighbor on the right who has his own WiFi. I don't want to be hassled by password protection everytime I log on. Am I being foolish?
You can set up the WPA2 key once on each client computer. They will all remember the key and settings, unless you specifically tell them to forget that network.
Keeping it open just exposes yourself to unnecessary risk. But most of the methods can be easily cracked, unless you are using the latest and greatest one. Even that one can be cracked, just not as easily.
I would enable it.
-David