Which is the Best Wireless Router? by Paul Cris
A wireless network is incomplete without a router. The router connects to the broadband connection and in turn the access point in the router enables your laptop or computer to connect with the Internet. There are many wireless routers available in the market and to label one of them as the best... After extensive research we found that the Belkin Wireless Pre-N router is the best in the wireless router category. ... It works with Windows, Mac and Linux too. ... But when we take the speed of transmission of the data, the range it transmits and the ease of use, there are not many that can...

Installing Linux on WRT54g Wireless Router by Eric Meyer
The WRT54G is a wireless router made by linksys. A few years ago linksys released its WRT54G firmware source code giving the open source community the ability to make its own versions. Installing Linux on your wireless router has many benefits and in my opinion few risks. ... Some have specific purposes: like being used for a wireless hotspot or a radius server. ... Typical ways to “Brick” your wrt54g router are: trying to install your firmware upgrade over a wireless connection, interrupting the upgrade, and finally powering cycling during or five minutes after the upgrade.

Why I Hacked My WEP Wireless Router by Paul McGillivary
Part of securing your network must include looking at your wireless access points. Wireless access can be dangerous to your network. Most people don't even know how easy it is to exploit wireless access points. Let me illustrate my point. I went out one afternoon and took my trusty laptop with me. ... This particular Linux distribution, or flavor of Linux, was a security edition. ... Linux is just an alternative operating system to Windows. ... I fired up my linux laptop. ... My goal was to hack my own WEP wireless network.

Wireless Network Security: How to Use Kismet by Eric Meyer
Kismet is a wireless network detector / sniffer which can give you a vast amount of information about wireless networks. Wireless network security flaws are well documented but often very hard for the common person to understand. I will be showing you how to use kismet with out even having to... (Also I can’t show you how to use kismet if you don’t have the correct wireless adapter, get an ORINICO Gold Classic Card off EBAY.) The Orninco gold classic card will be automaticly detected by auditor linux.

Wireless Linux: Using the Linux Wireless ToolBox by Eric Meyer
First thing you need to do is purchase a wireless adapter card with a prism2 chipset. Just go to google and type in linux wireless adapters and track one down. If you are using a fairly good wireless distro it should pick up the card automatically. Ok, Now you have the card now what, you plugged... There is no Zero config utility with linux, but they do have built in tools to help connect to wireless networks. ... By the way your wireless adapter should be named wlan0 The iwlist command will give a list of options that look like this: usage: iwlist [interface] scanning [interface]...

Wireless Security Basics by Benjamin Hargis
Wireless networks using 802.11 have made it simple to connect multiple devices to your home network.This can also make your data availiable anywhere, even outside your home.To set this up all you need is a broadband connection connected to a wireless router or a WAP Wireless Access Point. ... WEP or Wireless Encryption Protocol is not secure, I have cracked my own network with a Linux machine running Kismet. ... Your home computers should have wireless access cards installed or if your using a laptop a PCMCIA wireless card.

Proprietary Downfall by Michael X Hart
If you have read any of my articles that were computer related, you would easily come to the realization that I’m a fan of Open Source. When I was trying to record a podcast and was talking about Open Source my wife chimed in that that meant "free". I didn't correct her in any way because I... Well it seems that it really hasn't changed all that much in the current day situation, but having podcast from all kinds of Linux communities such as "The Linux Action Show!" the host Chris and Bryan give news about thousands of computers switching over to Linux, this podcast show gets a good amount...

Securing Your Wireless LAN by Jonathan Coupal
Introduction It has become common practice to deploy wireless networks for convenience applications requiring users to be mobile. Also many "road warriors" have Wi-Fi accounts that let them access the Internet and the corporate network from remote locations. ... · Isolating clients by preventing them from talking to one another on the wireless network is an option which prevents wireless hackers from attacking other users. ... Advanced Wireless Security Features IT personnel have a number of available options to make their wireless networks more secure than they are using WEP: · The...

WRT54g Linux Firmware Distributions by Eric Meyer
HYPERWRT Mission Statement is “HyperWRT is a power boost firmware for the Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GS router. The goal of this project is to add a limited set of features to the last Linksys firmware, extending its possibilities but staying close to the official firmware.” HYPER-WRT –... This WRT54G firmware is packed with features meant for creating open wireless hotspots for business or neighborhoods. ... I was able to VPN into my home network and used SSH to my Linux box. ... DD-WRT DD-WRT turns your WRT54G from a cheap $60 router into a $200 dollar wireless router.

Almost Famous by Chin Wong
The movie Almost Famous tells the story of William, a 15-year-old writer in the 1970s who bags an assignment from Rolling Stone Magazine to do an article about a rock band on the verge of stardom. The unlikely premise sets the stage for a road trip that’s all about being true to yourself and... “It’s just as much disruption—or as little disruption--to move to a version of Linux… So what we will probably see is that a lot of companies are going to very seriously consider...not switching to Vista but switching to a Linux-based platform instead.” None of these factors guarantees success, of...