You have now been introduced to John Hancock. He is among the millions of people each year who now use the comforts and benefits of wireless networking to ease his life. You may already know him, or someone like him. He has a high speed internet connection at home, purchases a new laptop, and decides to take advantage of the wireless technology. Along with being able to use his new laptop wirelessly at home in any room or outside, he can also take it to places such as airports, restaurants, and "wifi hotspots" and use wireless to search the internet and read email.
Although with the comforts, there are also insecurities. The insecurities are in the local wireless network itself.
In the first article - Wireless Networking - At What Cost? - John took his wireless router out of the box, and was able to plug it in and then use it with a minimal number of steps. The quick and basic configurations were used to get it up and going so he could use the connection fast and easy. He did not need to know anything about security, MAC address filters, WEP, WPA, channels, signal strength or SSID’s (Other than to give a name to his wireless network). It was fast and easy. Within 10 minutes, he had the wireless part of his network working.
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