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Build a LAN with a WNDR3400v2
I'm trying to make a wifi LAN with 4 devices for sharing. I don't need full time internet as it's a metered connection and I want to keep data usage down to a minimum. (It seems I need the internet c...
FredReed wrote:
I forgot to mention this, I read about and watched a demonstration on "Pixiedust".
I'm not sure if it was a "brute force" attack over the internet or over the wifi signal.
Do you know? I'm sure there are newer ones since then too.
These attacks are to break into wifi. Your router is not vulnerable to Pixie Dust. I haven't seen anything specific on WPS brute force attacks. But if you simply disable WPS on your router, you won't be vulnerable to this whole class of attacks.
Passphrases (and pins) can always be attacked by brute-force (which amounts to trying all possible passphrases). There are ways to slow these attacks down - for instance, if the router is slow to respond after a couple of failed connection attempts, then the brute-force attack will take a lot longer. Even a small delay is enough to make these attacks useless (because there are so many passphrases to try).
If you are worried about this particular threat, you can reduce the risk by turning your router's wifi off when you aren't using it, and by changing the passphrase from time to time. In general, longer passphrases will be harder to discover by brute force guessing.
AH,
It seems we have our thoughts crossed.
What I have is a small apartment. No need to repeat or extend the range of my router. The devices I have will be no more than 25' away.
What I don't have is Internet at my apartment.
The closest public wifi is close to a mile away.
A cardioid or beam antenna outside my building isn't allowed by the owner/management even if it did work at that distance. At this point, I'll work on connecting a LAN here to my devices and set the sharing for just here. Once that's up a working, I can investigate Internet service afterwards.
Thanks for.piqueing mind my mind. I used to talk "skip" on CB years ago so skip wifi sounds interesting.
It seems we have our thoughts crossed.
What I have is a small apartment. No need to repeat or extend the range of my router. The devices I have will be no more than 25' away.
What I don't have is Internet at my apartment.
The closest public wifi is close to a mile away.
A cardioid or beam antenna outside my building isn't allowed by the owner/management even if it did work at that distance. At this point, I'll work on connecting a LAN here to my devices and set the sharing for just here. Once that's up a working, I can investigate Internet service afterwards.
Thanks for.piqueing mind my mind. I used to talk "skip" on CB years ago so skip wifi sounds interesting.
FredReed wrote:
AH,
It seems we have our thoughts crossed.
What I have is a small apartment. No need to repeat or extend the range of my router. The devices I have will be no more than 25' away.
What I don't have is Internet at my apartment.
The closest public wifi is close to a mile away.
A cardioid or beam antenna outside my building isn't allowed by the owner/management even if it did work at that distance. At this point, I'll work on connecting a LAN here to my devices and set the sharing for just here. Once that's up a working, I can investigate Internet service afterwards.
Thanks for.piqueing mind my mind. I used to talk "skip" on CB years ago so skip wifi sounds interesting.
A wifi repeater with a backhaul lan port would allow the repeater to convert the wifi signal into a lan based signal that the router could understand.
As for the wifi depending on if you a unbroken sight of line to the public wifi and the gain of antenna you end up with a computer using a wifi usb adaptor could feed the Internet to the computer and it via a lan port could feed the Internet signal out to your router via a lan cable if every works just right. The range and speed is hard to tell this crazy answer to free wifi it has many traps and pit falls but the repeater linked via a lan cable to your router should make devices into one lan one repeater should do the job. If you get this set up going please let me know. Please leave private networks alone and go by the ground rules of the public network.