Re: How to better secure my wireless transmissions on my home WLAN? VPN?

"__spc__" <spamtime@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:1129533584.138528.85590
@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

> I have ntl cable broadband connected to a Linksys WRT54G (v2, Linksys
> f/w 4.20.7).
>
> Connected wirelessly to this is a home-built desktop PC running XP Home
> SP2 using a 54g PCI unbranded card.
>
> Also connected wirelessly is a laptop PC (Medion 42792), also running
> XP Home SP2 using an internal 54g Broadcom based card. (Most of the
> time, this laptop is CAT5 cabled to the router, but the wife likes to
> roam the house with it, so it does go wireless.)
>
> Neither machine is left on server-like.
>
> My WLAN is WPA-PSK (TKIP), but I want to increase the security of my
> wireless transmissions, using VPN I am guessing. I have looked at
> OpenVPN (too complicated) and iOpus IPIG (not sure it does what I
> want).


Any financial stuff or things of that nature, I would use wire. It's as
simple as that.

>
> If possible, I would also like both machines to be accessible from
> another PC behind a similar setup in another location, via the
> internet.
>

It's called port forwarding. You should keep the machine out of the DMZ.

http://www.homenethelp.com/web/explain/port-forwarding-dmz.asp

The other possibility would be port triggering -- look it up but I doubt
that it's going to work for you in Remote Desktop Sharing situation over
the Internet with two machines on the LAN if that's what you're after.

Port forwarding only works with one IP/machine behind the router and you
should use a static IP on the router for the machine.

Port Triggering is for a game situation where you have more than one
machine using the same port(s) behind the router to play the game over
the Internet with multiple players as an example.

You can also use IPsec that's on the Win 2k and above O/S(s) if you're
looking for a VPN between the machines on the LAN or WAN -- use Google.

Duane :)
.

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