[AT] OT : ! puter question for dsl

[Mike Sloane]

Warren F. Smith wrote:


> 
> You are right about the distance limitations, but there are longer antennas
> and people who drive around with them on their laptops. I have a friend who
> is head of IT at a large company and he's done it. If someone can find your
> router the odds are in their favor they will find everything else on your
> computers.
> 
> Basically my point is- the encryption is there, why would you not use it?
The only reason for not enabling it is that encryption will slow down 
your file transfers considerably. If you don't care about that, then by 
all means, use encryption.
> 
> Warren

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