attn: guests in or near my house!

[rmd]

I've updated the wifi in my house. There's now a guest network that - for the moment - has a password on it. The guest network is named "offhandguest" and the password for it is "offhandguest" (without the quotes).

I may drop the authentication for it later, when I've got filtering set up better, but for now, it's got a token bit of auth on it.

Comments

[be-well-lowell.livejournal.com]

Keeping a password, even if it's trivial to guess, is probably a good idea; unless things have broken more than I've heard, it keeps client hosts from being able to (trivially) snoop on each other.

For parties, however, I still try to set up a (DMZ-based) network with no password.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I have a T-mobile data stick to use in my studio, but it sucks donkeys for service. Mostly that's fine, I just need to check my email, but if something happens that I need to deal with, it's good to know I can wander over to your carport or something. (Plus, I've almost run out of rags in studio! Time for me to pick up those shirts :-).

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

What hardware setup did you wind up going with?

[rmd.livejournal.com]

airport extreme. so far my only complaint is that you're somewhat restricted in IP addressing in the 10 space. They give you a drop-down list with some rfc1918 prefixes, and the 10 one is 10.0/16. (I had previously used 10.2.2.0/24, so I had to readdress some stuff.)