Duane Arnold <notme@notme.com> writes:

>strutsng@gmail.com wrote in news:1128999001.987347.159320
>@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:

>> My home has broadband internet connection. 2 computers are connected
>> with wireless router, and I have multiple
>> laptops are using Wi-Fi adapters that talk to wireless router. I guess
>> it is a typical home's networking infrastructure.
>>
>> I want to know what's the best practices to secure the home's network?

a) Make sure that you use encryption. 128 bit WEP if nothing better is
available, or WPA if it is.

b)Connect betweent the machines using ssh, not telnet.
c) Set up a firewall to let in the minial traffic for what you want to do.

>>
>> any good articles for references?
>>
>> please advise. thanks!!
>>

>Here you go and so much for the Linux loud mouth. That crap is full of
>holes too just like the rest of the crap O/S(s) written by fallible Human
>Beings.

>http://netsecurity.about.com/cs/wire...aa112203_2.htm

Looks like it might be OK, despite the incomprehensibility of the
suggestor.