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September 18, 2008
Comcast Made Me Do It
The recent change by Comcast - clarifying their "acceptable use policy" as no more than 250GB/month, but not giving users a means to measure their progress toward that cap, finally convinced me to turn on security on our wireless network.
Before I could do that, I had to remove a wireless to Ethernet bridge that serviced the various networked devices in the entertainment center (the Roku Soundbridge, the Roku Netflix player, and the Xbox) which only supported WEP (which, despite it's name, is no privacy at all). So I picked up a set of these .
They arrived today, and good to their word, they were plug-and-play. I don't get anywhere near the theoretical 85Mbps, but it looks like more than enough for audio and (at least standard definition) video streaming.
Turning on WPA was pretty easy too, though one of my devices didn't want to associate initially, and had to be factory reset and reconfigured via it's Ethernet interface before it got happy.
So now "oubliette" has "security enabled" - and folks wanting to use the network will have to get the pass-phrase from me.
muwahahaha, feel the power...
Posted by dberger at September 18, 2008 8:53 PM