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Old Dec 11, 2004 | 9:11 pm
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Originally Posted by JadedTraveler
None; MAC filtering; WEP; WPA with key authentication; WPA with AES encryption (this is a fed. govt. standard, neither the feds nor foreign govts. will be able to decipher the signals between your laptop and your router).
I'd stick "Turn off SSID Broadcast" in between NONE and MAC Filtering, just as another hassle someone would have to work around. If they don't easilly SEE it in the list of available open or secure networks, they are less likely to try to address or hack it.
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