Originally Posted by The Voice
hello gurus' .. I have recently networked my new lappy with the home desktop, bluddy marvellous thing and very happy with it too!
My question though concerns the security aspect.
How can I make sure that the ...(snip)... connection is purely for my two computers, not my two computers and all of the neighbours as well?
Er, I just use wired connections. Not only faster and more reliable, but this completely avoids all the problems of having to get one's head round the security stuff. It Just Works and nobody can tap into it (unless they've first burgled the house, at which point I've got worse things to worry about).
(Oh, there is one downside though. When lightening struck our fishpond it took out all the wired network gear; a wired network would have survived a bit better.)