[u-u] Suggestions for stopping occasional spurious use of commercial wi-fi

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On Sun, 16 Sep 2018, David Collier-Brown wrote:

|I have a Rogers-supplied router and cable modem package, which twice has shown
|significant usage when I was out, once with the original unit and once with
|their replacement Cisco.  That makes me suspicious of the current state of
|authentication for wi-fi schemes (and I use the term "schemes" advisedly: they
|used to horribly leaky (;-))
|
|What's a good approach? I have considered
|
| * MAC address lists,
| * no wi-fi (strictly wired doesn't work with solid concrete walls),
| * a second router with a more secure protocol (/is/ there such a
|   protocol? And will my wife's Mac speak it?))
| * something I haven't thought of


	!. yes, allow only designated MAC addresses
	2. change SSID & don't broadcast it
	2. consider LoRa as a possible adjunct/replacement
	   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa


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