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fuzzytomcat:
Hi all,

Most "HACKERS" love wireless routers, most are configured incorrect with the a computers operating system ...... you can drive around any town, city or village and access many networks and personal computers, use wireless routers properly or risk being hacked.

Fuzzy
:)

Quantum:

--- Quote from: fuzzytomcat on April 25, 2009, 05:25:01 am ---Hi all,

Most "HACKERS" love wireless routers, most are configured incorrect with the a computers operating system ...... you can drive around any town, city or village and access many networks and personal computers, use wireless routers properly or risk being hacked.

Fuzzy
:)


--- End quote ---

2 easy things to get around this:

1. Make sure you use a non-default password on the router
2. Make sure the default firmware doesn't have some huge security hole in it and update it if needs be

Other than that they can only steal your bandwidth but you can add a wireless security key system which hasn't been broken yet.

texasboy:
 ;D Somewhat related to this topic. You may remember I was having problems on Win 64 bit PC (freezing) and thought it was the 2 fans not running.http://convivea.com/forums/index.php?topic=1430.msg13756#new For some reason Belkin wireless came to the rescue. Following is a part of message&nbsp; sent to another member.

Dont no exactly what I did but got this PC running again.
Enabled serial port 1 as a start.
Changed network to Belkin 125 high speed mode on 2.4GHz(says its 35% faster) Had tried all my normal 54Mbps(802.11g) but 64bit vista wouldnt recoginize cdr, (even set to WinXP.in compatability). The 125 ver worked and windows immediately supplied update to make it work on vista 64bit.
Removed ethernet cable and booted up with Belkin only.
Removed all nvidea drivers and updated again. Everthing running great and no hangups. Run stability tests using nvidia ntune(unistall/install to latest for vista 64) no problems.
Have again run several stability tests and increased GPU TO 624/919. Quick run on 3DMark gives excellent figures.
Temperatures pretty decent 40deg CPU and 48deg onGPU.

Its still going strong after 3 hours.
Wonder if it was the old ethernet cable.

Im sure there is a proper answer to all this, but now running well above 2.4GHz stock.(2.93GHz at present
cheers

Quantum:
Sounds like either some buggy ethernet drivers or something broken on the motherboard (buggy network controller etc..)

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