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[dloose]

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?

[thecreator]

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.

[EddieZ]

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  )

[funchords]

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...

[war59312]

I'm getting 300 but I live in the country.

Look Time Warner Cable 5 years or so to even get cable out here..