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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Routers / COVR => DIR-655 => Topic started by: dloose on January 10, 2009, 07:16:59 AM
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I have a DIR-655 on my home computer and a DAP-1522 in my home theater. Want 300 kbs to the DAP-1522 (or as fast as possible) but I also have some older g stuff, laptops and a Squeezebox that don't support WPA. Can I get .11n AND reasonable security by running no encryption with MAC filtering on?
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I have a DIR-655 on my home computer and a DAP-1522 in my home theater. Want 300 kbs to the DAP-1522 (or as fast as possible) but I also have some older g stuff, laptops and a Squeezebox that don't support WPA. Can I get .11n AND reasonable security by running no encryption with MAC filtering on?
Hi dloose,
Don't broadcast your SSID Signal Name, if you are not running Encryption.
See this post: http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=616.0
Also if you are sharing files on older G stuff, then I would set the internal transmission Rate to MCS 11-52 (108)
Having it set at a higher transmission Rate, will cause your Wireless Connection to slow down, because it would be too fast for the G stuff to handle.
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Not broadcasting your SSID can, on the other hand, cause problems with connecting devices. Just to warn you.
WEP security is cracked in about 10 seconds for a real war driver so I would say: loose the encryption, use MAC filtering for the sake of a safe feeling (it's also cracked in minutes by a serious hacker) and optimize speed. That's what I did at least (you want to know where I live now, don't you ;) )
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I have a DIR-655 on my home computer and a DAP-1522 in my home theater. Want 300 kbs to the DAP-1522 (or as fast as possible) but I also have some older g stuff, laptops and a Squeezebox that don't support WPA. Can I get .11n AND reasonable security by running no encryption with MAC filtering on?
No.
No. You'd be far away from reasonable security.
No encryption is exactly that -- no encryption. Even if your network is locked down, I can monitor everything happening on it from the outside. It's like living in a glass house -- does it really matter how good or bad the locks are if I can see everything you do and say on the net?
MAC filtering -- MAC addresses are never encrypted. So if your security is based on MAC addresses, all I have to do is spoof one of your MAC addresses and I can get in. This "feature" is good for making your network difficult for you to manage, however! :( Don't use it.
300N is also a pipe dream. Even if you do everything on the "stickys," the fact is that 2.4 GHz is too crowded nearly everywhere. Don't get me wrong -- this stuff is great technology, but it's been marketed beyond all reasonableness by all the players in the industry. You might get 300N with the DIR-655 if you live in a Faraday cage, but other than that...
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I'm getting 300 but I live in the country. :)
Look Time Warner Cable 5 years or so to even get cable out here..