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Jay A

2006-04-27, 1:14 pm

Does anyone have any experience with this drive?

I have a basic question which may pertain to any network drive of this
type...

My home wirless network is an encrypted one (WEP). We have 4 computers that
access it athrough a Linksys wireless router and I have WEP encryption on
this network and assigned the password to 3 of the 4 computers (the 4th is
hard wired to the router).

Now that I have plugged this WD hard drive into the router can someone from
the outside possibly have access to it, or does my wireless network
encryption still protect it too (at least to the extent that any WEP
encryption protects a network...I know it's not the best solution)?


Maxim S. Shatskih

2006-04-27, 1:14 pm

Looks like WEP protects all your wireless traffic, both the drive's traffic
and any other traffic.

--
Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
maxim@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com

"Jay A" <cajay@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:L6Z3g.6147$yI1.5486@trnddc04...
> Does anyone have any experience with this drive?
>
> I have a basic question which may pertain to any network drive of this
> type...
>
> My home wirless network is an encrypted one (WEP). We have 4 computers that
> access it athrough a Linksys wireless router and I have WEP encryption on
> this network and assigned the password to 3 of the 4 computers (the 4th is
> hard wired to the router).
>
> Now that I have plugged this WD hard drive into the router can someone from
> the outside possibly have access to it, or does my wireless network
> encryption still protect it too (at least to the extent that any WEP
> encryption protects a network...I know it's not the best solution)?
>
>


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