So because I finally wanted to switch to WPA, and get some more bandwidth for VNC, I upgraded to a new netgear router. My old one though I still needed for its parallel port print server.
Sadly, even after upgrading to the latest firewall firmware, there was still no option to turn off the radio. I needed to disable the wireless radio... Enter a roll of metal flashing tape. I removed the antenna and
taped up the socket.
My notebook about 5 feet away from the thing had no signal. If I had one of those fancy wireless detectors I'd see what maybe some metal screening, or grounding the shield would do, but this seemed good enough.
Then I enabled the only security it's got (WEP) with a totally random key, enabled only allow particularly MAC's and didn't put any in, and just for grins disabled SSID broadcast (I know that doesn't make a huge deal).
Seems safe enough.
That is just *classic*! Still, it's probably even cooler that you actually own metal flashing tape...
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