Strange SSID in the air...

Aloke Prasad hath wroth:

Well, I use wireless on the road. However, I cheat. I have a VPN or PPTP termination on my office router, home router, and various ISP's. Here's an example of one ISP's setup:

Everything outside the tunnel is encrypted and un-sniffable. Doing this to my home or office router is a problem due to limited outgoing bandwidth. It's really slow. However, for just checking if some email I was expecting, it's fine.

Thanks. If you understand how such things work, you can easily avoid problems. If you just trust in the odds, in luck, or in marginal security suggestions, without an understanding of how it works, you're going to have a problem. The problem is that the various layers, acronyms, protocols, add-ons, shims, supplicants, AAA, and buzzwords are becoming very difficult to absorb. I've been doing this for a long time, so I get to absorb new things in small bites. Someone just getting started gets instantly overwhelmed. Learning is a good thing, but don't blame yourself if it goes together like a bad jigsaw puzzle.