How do I make my network secure?

[MikeJaquish]

Originally Posted by Asheville Native

And the vast majority of computer users are still utterly clueless about network security.

I drive through my neighborhood and have no problem picking up multiple unsecured home networks on my phone, one after the other, as I go down the street.
Probably 6 or 7 in about a half mile.

[Steel Man]

Originally Posted by MikeJaquish

I drive through my neighborhood and have no problem picking up multiple unsecured home networks on my phone, one after the other, as I go down the street.
Probably 6 or 7 in about a half mile.

There are at least 8 wireless networks in my neighborhood. All are secure, though all but one are using WEP. I use WPA2.

[Tek_Freek]

I can see 9 on my list. All but one (a new one) are secured.

[MikeJaquish]

I was completely unsecured for over a year.
Legacy printers on wireless just didn't want to come on board until I removed the security.

And I came to this forum and either Asheville Native or Escape California made me paranoid about some drive-by pervert downloading child porn via my IP, and now I am wireless and everything is functioning just fine on the network.

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by mensaguy

I've got network connections all over my house. My first router did not have wireless, so I just added a drop whenever we moved the furniture around.

Besides, I always heard that "network security" was an oxymoron.

Some operating systems are reasonably secure on a network, but they don't tend to be consumer operating systems.