Originally Posted by theFez

three of my neighbors had wide open wireless networks. i didnt really need the access so decided to give them some hints to tighten things up. logged in to their routers, disabled wireless, set an admin password and rebooted the router.

One of them had wep running after that. the other two just used hardware reset and went right back to wide open.

so i changed their SSID's to HACK_ME and HACK_ME2.

One of them got the hint from that and fixed his network. HACK_ME2 is still wide open though.

Personally i dont bother with WEP I tend to move pretty big files from my server to laptop and dont like the performance hit. but i disable SSID broadcast, disable DHCP, only allow enough IP addresses for my equipment and MAC filter connections.