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Old 12th Jun 2007, 21:27
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I've told my Router my MAC address, do I still need WEP / WPA??

I've today installed a new broadband router; the old one keeps dropping the internet connection.

I've told it to only connect to the MAC addresses of the 2 laptops I have. I've also password protected the access to the router. All I want is internet on the 2 computers, nothing else.

Do I still need to set up further security?? I'm assuming I only want to protect my broadband from being used by others, but is having it unsecured opening up my laptop to vulnerabilities??

Looking at previous pprune threads, people seem to advocate the MAC address security as an extra option, not the 'only' one. What do you recon??

Thanks, Simon
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