mOnEY = eThO aNEL juIcE sWAPING.....your both gay shut up...

 

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Darklord, MAC address is embedded in the hardware...you can spoof it, but not change it permenantly (unless you go all the way to desoldering chips, and soldering new ones in their place, or physically altering the chipsets)...it's too big a PITA for most hackers to use...definately too big of one to get into a small home network, where subnetting has already set it up so that all you could do is borrow connectivity by replacing one of the legit hosts...but you'd have no access to the other machines connected to the router, because they are on seperate networks, technically...and why would anyone want to borrow connectivity from a wireless router where the wireless ports had been limited to 128 KBPS up and down? I'm definately limiting the bandwidth available to my kids, because I may have a semi-capped modem (disabled some of the capping), but the cable trunk line here won't serve me more than 2.53MBPS download and 1.78 upload maxes, on tests...I'll let my kids have 128kbps..maybe 256....but I'm not sacrificing any of *MY* 1 MBPS bidirectional allotment <grin>...I'll let the wife and kids argue over who gets what of the remaining possible bandwidth :)

 

 

The only reason I'm even thinking wireless is I just finished repainting the whole interior of the house...I REALLY don't want to go popping holes in the walls, or running hardwired line through the walls, and adding outlets...but I'm honestly thinking I might be better off just putting a box in the wall by where I keep my computer, and wiring it for power to a modem and router, with wall-mounted switches for that, and just wiring every room in the house from there, with RJ-45 wall jacks in each room..but that's a pain in the ass. PITA or not, it might be the way I end up going, for security and stability sake.

 

 

Oh, and 2.4GHz equipment (802.11g standard) doesn't get interference from cell phones...but it can get signal interference from 2.4GHz cordless setups...fortunately, I have two 900MHz phones and a 5GHz, so that wouldn't be an issue.

"I'll let the wife and kids argue over who gets what of the remaining possible bandwidth"

 

do they actually argue over it..like at dinner?

i got wireless linksys the one ur thinking of buying, DONT GET IT. piece of shit packet loss every 2 seconds. too much interference, not worth it.

ty werx..that's the sort of info I was looking for...guess I'm putting a little "wiring closet" in the corner here, and wiring up the house....what a PITA :n011:

Whatever you do, stay away from D-Link routers. I've had to have my ISP replace the router (it is theirs) four times in the past 6 months because something is fucked up. Stick to Linksys for routers and wireless (I use Linksys for a wireless and used to have a router from them). Only had to replace the wireless once in the past two years, and that's because my ISP said it was the Linksys (it wasn't).

wireless is crap stick with wired, if you dont have a choice the go with the pci the usb is a piece of shit

well 2 of my freinds are runnin wireless with linksys routers and the MAX kbps ive seen on both is about 150 kbps...i mean honestly.....go with the wired man. the wired setup may be harder to set up <wires goin thru house> but its worth it because im usin a wired connection and the fastest ive gotten is 40 MBps

kewl...ty for the advice from the standpoint of users who've USED it...looks like it's worth going through the pain to wire it all.

  npor said:

well 2 of my freinds are runnin wireless with linksys routers and the MAX kbps ive seen on both is about 150 kbps...i mean honestly.....go with the wired man. the wired setup may be harder to set up <wires goin thru house> but its worth it because im usin a wired connection and the fastest ive gotten is 40 MBps

 

 

when i used it i never saw it above 150 kbps