Wireless Wandering

Ready To Secure

At this point, you should have a working network. It isn't a secure network yet, and this is a bad spot to stop work, pop the cork from the champagne, and celebrate. Wi-Fi security is arguably the strangest and trickiest of all facets of wireless networking, and I've devoted an entire section of this book-Chapters 11 through 14-to the subject of security. Please read Part 3 through completely, and then set up Wired Equivalent Privacy for your network. It's cheap insurance, not against some nasty attacks from mysterious hackers out in the wilds of the global Internet, but from that weird-looking guy sitting in a car out in front of your house with a laptop.

Knowledge is power. Know your network, know your enemy, know your options- and someone else will take the hits, not you.