MAC address security - does it slow access speed

I currently use WPA2 and broadcasting my SSID

If I additionally enable MAD filtering will this slow the speed of my WLAN?

Thanks

Clive

Clive <clive@cs.com> writes:

> I currently use WPA2 and broadcasting my SSID
>
> If I additionally enable MAD filtering will this slow the speed of my WLAN?


MAC filtering if of fairly little value since mac addresses are
transmitted i the clear, and an attacker could spoof the mac fairly
easily. It will just make your wlan more of a pain in the butt for
you to use.

But, no, it's not gonna slow anything down.

Be sure to use a strong, random 20character or better wpa passphrase
and keep the firmware updated and life should be relatively neato.

Best Regards,
--
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>It will just make your wlan more of a pain in the butt for you to use.

Ehh ? You just need to enter the MAC No.s of the adapters you use in to the
router - ONCE.
It will keep 'passers by' off your wifi.
Regards,
Martin

On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 03:05:59 +0100, "Martin²" <never@give.one> wrote in
<4614598e$0$8738$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>:

>>It will just make your wlan more of a pain in the butt for you to use.
>
>Ehh ? You just need to enter the MAC No.s of the adapters you use in to the
>router - ONCE.

Then you forget what you've done, and waste hours of your time down the
road trying to figure out why that new laptop won't connect.

>It will keep 'passers by' off your wifi.

Not really. The ones that you need to worry about will be only slightly
inconvenienced.

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John Navas <spamfilter0@navasgroup.com> hath wroth:

>On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 03:05:59 +0100, "Martin²" <never@give.one> wrote in
><4614598e$0$8738$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>:
>
>>>It will just make your wlan more of a pain in the butt for you to use.
>>
>>Ehh ? You just need to enter the MAC No.s of the adapters you use in to the
>>router - ONCE.
>
>Then you forget what you've done, and waste hours of your time down the
>road trying to figure out why that new laptop won't connect.
>
>>It will keep 'passers by' off your wifi.
>
>Not really. The ones that you need to worry about will be only slightly
>inconvenienced.

Agreed. I got lazy on the neighborhood LAN/WLAN and applied MAC
filtering to keep the neighbors virus server off my network. That's
because I have a tangled mess of ancient junk 802.11b client radios on
the system that won't do WPA. I figured that if I used WEP, it would
be cracked as quickly as if I had applied MAC filtering. I figured it
would take the brat about a week or two to figure it out. Nope, it
took all of about a day before he borrowed my laptops MAC address and
used it to connect. I would never even have noticed except that it
said that my laptop was on the network at a time when the laptop was
10 miles away and that my ISP called to announce that I was again
spewing spam. So, I now get to buy some new 802.11g wireless client
adapters that will do WPA. MAC filtering is not much of a security
feature.


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