off topicthe home of tomorrow?

[James Knott]

Colin McGregor wrote:

> Besides the "main" basement rack, I did set-up a small
> hub in the attic (protected inside an old wooden shoe
> box)

Where'd you find wooden shoes?  ;-)

> I still don't totally trust wireless networking, in
> part due to my holding an amateur radio licence
> (VE3ZAA). A basic rule in my books has been, get a new
> radio, see what it can pick up. So, cordless phone
> calls, oddball radio stations, (like XMJ225, Toronto's
> most boring radio station, all Toronto weather, all
> the time) etc., no problem (well, okay, the phone
> calls I have heard were BORING, but that is beside the
> point). Basicly encryption or not, I don't want to be
> transmitting anything I care about, PERIOD.

I have my WiFi outside of my firewall and have to use OpenVPN or SSH to
access my network.  I also use WEP, for whatever it's worth.

BTW, VE3ZU here.
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