[KLUG Members] Wireless Access Point recommendation?

[Adam Bultman]

> Does anyone have any very specific recommendations that might help my palms
> stop sweating?
> 

Thwart wardrivers, but be careful to thwart would-be snoopers by 
implementing some sort of WEP key-changing scheme.  802.11a and 802.11b, 
from what I hear, don't have much of anything for encryption, and I hear 
it's fairly crackable (my Orinoco card won't go into promiscuous mode, so 
I can't try).  On the WAP I help 'manage', I try to roll the keys fairly 
frequently, and I watch pretty carefully for IPs that might pop up.  My 
WAP is in a prettty obvious and war-drivable area, so I sweat often.  I 
makee sure to encrypt all useful traffic just in case. [1] 802.11g I hear 
has better security, but you are going 
to pay for it. Plus, I read somwhere there's compatibility problems.

Of course, I could be wrong.  


[1] Is there a way I could tunnel to the linux box router with SSH and 
redirect all http traffic through it?  That'd be swell. I'd rather not 
forward X over the 1Mbit connection.