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to: John Cuccia
from: Richard B.
date: 2006-08-06 12:22:34
subject: Re: WLAN acting up

From: Richard B. 

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:48:15 -0500, John Cuccia  wrote:

>I don't know and I'm very glad I don't have to decide. .

Now is not the time to make political statments. 

>Marathon was just beginning to test WLANs using WEP when I left.  I
>don't know if they've deployed anthing yet or not.  I do know that any
>WAPs that they have deployed are Cisco products and are probably only
>used to link things like conference rooms to the wired LAN.

I've got the management types trying wireless in the office, things seem to
be better since I upgraded the APs but I'm not sure they use it much since
we had so much initial trouble.  Trying to get everyone moved to
"a" and away from "g."

>At home I've had much less trouble with WEP than with WPA/WPA2, but
>figured WEP was no more effective tnan MAC filtering against a
>determined hacker.

As usual, gotta have a multi-level defense.  We had an access point that
had reset itself and I had several PCs from downstairs on it. Crikes!

>Losing my job worked wonders for me .

Oh go to hell.   As Bronson said..."Man I wish I was you."

- Richard

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