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[kevinla]

Hello,

What wireless security level should I set on my DIR-655? Is there one to avoid that might make my connection slower? Do I even need to secure the network if I we are just sharing an internet connection?

Kevin

[ddwinell]

If you are using Draft N adapters you must use WPA, or WPA 2 with a AES Cypher type. For anything else WEP or WPA/2 auto, will be fine.

[JHK]

Most people use the WEP, but WPA is much secure than the WEP encryption method.

One major improvement in WPA over WEP is the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), which dynamically changes keys as the system is used...Wiki

To setup encryption on the DIR-655 router, try log into the router http://192.168.0.1 from IE. Username will be 'admin' and password will be empty (unless you set a password). Go to the Setup tab, and click on Wireless Settings to the left side then set the Wireless Security Mode to WPA-Personal. Enter the security key into Pre-shared Key. Click Save Settings at the top of the page.

Reconnect to your wireless signal, it should ask for the security key. Your network will now be secure.

[DeLiZiT]

For safer reasons I would suggest going with WPA2 encryption type.

If you are more carefree (like me) and just want to browse the Internet wirelessly. I have mine set to disable SSID broadcast disable DHCP and static my wireless cllient's IP address in the same range as my network.

[crosenblum]

For performance, i always use mac address filtering, wpa, actually is a performance drain, doing encryption on all your traffic, mac address is better and faster

[mig]

For performance, i always use mac address filtering, wpa, actually is a performance drain, doing encryption on all your traffic, mac address is better and faster

ignore any advice that says to use MAC address filtering. It's amazingly trivial to spoof the MAC address of an allowed supplicant

Steve Riely's full article can be found at
http://blogs.technet.com/steriley/archive/2007/10/16/myth-vs-reality-wireless-ssids.aspx

[Wal_]

for throughput purposes I would recommend WPA2 AES.

[onebyside]

Steve Riely's full article can be found at
http://blogs.technet.com/steriley/archive/2007/10/16/myth-vs-reality-wireless-ssids.aspx

great little read..thank you

[war59312]

WPA has been cracked this week. That is if you using WPA with tkip.

If you use AES then no problem. So stick with AES encryption no matter what.

[Lycan]

AES is the only wa to acheive 802.11N.

[crosenblum]

Let me clarify then...

1. No security system is fullproof, someone, someway will always find a way.

2. So what you have to do, is pick a method/system that gives you best security with best performance.

I do not claim to be an expert, but i use mac filtering, is because encryption adds to the cpu processing...And mac filtering does not, or not as much so...

And for me performance is far more important than high level security....

To be honest, if there was a way, i'd even disable wireless, as I really don't need that functionality....

[Lycan]

There is a way to disable wireless.
It's on the setup tab.

[war59312]

If you really want to learn about this stuff then read this:

http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-170.htm

Or watch the podcast. I've watched them all.