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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.
StephenB,
You sir, have "hit the nail on the head" and drove it in all the way! (I've done some carpentry work) Your explanation has cleared up a HUGE portion of my questions and presumptions.
I was always under the presumption that there were LAN networks (business phone networks within a confined area as you described) long before any internet (outside "telephone network of networks". Remember Ma Bell?) even existed in our computerland we have now. I grew up during the changeover from dial telephones, wired to the wall in the front hallway and "party lines" in the neighborhood all the way to the current smartphone generation. From vacuum tube TVs that warmed up faster than many computers take to fully boot up! (Macintosh still makes some beautiful sounding vacuum tube powered audio equipment by the way. Check out the Best Buy satellite Macintosh offerings) OK, I've gone on a long enough tangent here.
I will do the things you suggested above and get back to the "share" settings questions asap.
So this is a preliminary THANK YOU StephenB.
I'll be back. I have sharing and security protocol questions as the equipment I have IS older "legacy" stuff to a large degree.
You sir, have "hit the nail on the head" and drove it in all the way! (I've done some carpentry work) Your explanation has cleared up a HUGE portion of my questions and presumptions.
I was always under the presumption that there were LAN networks (business phone networks within a confined area as you described) long before any internet (outside "telephone network of networks". Remember Ma Bell?) even existed in our computerland we have now. I grew up during the changeover from dial telephones, wired to the wall in the front hallway and "party lines" in the neighborhood all the way to the current smartphone generation. From vacuum tube TVs that warmed up faster than many computers take to fully boot up! (Macintosh still makes some beautiful sounding vacuum tube powered audio equipment by the way. Check out the Best Buy satellite Macintosh offerings) OK, I've gone on a long enough tangent here.
I will do the things you suggested above and get back to the "share" settings questions asap.
So this is a preliminary THANK YOU StephenB.
I'll be back. I have sharing and security protocol questions as the equipment I have IS older "legacy" stuff to a large degree.