Ryberg, Nicholas wrote: <snippy> > > As a home user who wants to lock down his home wireless network, what's > the easiest way to do this? I would guess that WPA2 with the alphabet > soup of accompanying acronyms is secure, but is it workable for a normal > end user? Is WPA sufficient? > > Do I need a backroom server to manage all that stuff? > </snippy> Fascinating...technical questions on a technical list. WPA for a home user should be quite sufficient. You can use pre-shared keys and still be in the good enough realm if you use a somewhat strong key. Pre-shared keys would remove the need for some sort of backend server. Josh