Adding Wireless router to exiting home network 3

[MrPB]

I would like to add a wireless router to my existing wired home network, so I can use my laptop (from work) anywhere in the house. I'm concerned about security: I'll buy a wireless router that has WPA and MAC filtering etc.

I only want to use the internet (VPN) to connect to my work network. I think it will be more secure to connect the wireless router to my existing router via a LAN port, than to just replace the existing router with a wireless router and connect the the wired pc's to the wireless router's LAN ports.

Will the first router act as a firewall to keep wireless intruders out of the wired network (assuming I don't allow file and resource sharing)?

 

[schtek]

first answer is NO!! on the new wireless router to stop pps from connecting to it i sujest u use incription on it and if you can hide the wep do it.You say u only want to..but when u realise that u can walk around ure castle u will use the internet some time!! if ure not to sure on setting thefront router i would sujest strongly to get a software firewall,ps change password on W router as well

Also read the instructions well on the W router

hope this helps


"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."

 

[MrPB]

Thanks schtek.

 

[RussellMcL]

If you use encryption, (WEP Key), mac filtering and hide your SSID, you shoul dbe very safe from people accessing your W-Lan. It may also prove just as easy to swap out a wireless router for your wired one, as long as it has the same sort of spec as your existing one. You might be best to buy a wireless one from the same manufacturer that your existing wired router is from, as then it will likely include the same if not more inbuilt security, and you shoudl also have a bit of a clue about the programming function of it.

 

[JoshT976]

If you have another type of encryption available (For example WPA), I would highly suggest using that over WEP

WEP is VERY each to crack, and MAC addresses can easily be spoofed.

Of course, thats only if somebody really wanted to get in (or if the neighborhood teenager is really bored)

Just trying to provide useful information to you.

Joshua

 

[MrPB]

I got a new wireless modem, enabled MAC address filtering, WPA encryption and hid my SSID.

I ended up having to unhide my ssid, because I couldn't tell which network I was logging on to.

I'm using my laptop from work, so I don't want to log on to someone else's network by accident. My SSID is a 20 character random generated string, which looks pretty silly now that it's visible.