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I recently bought a new laptop and wireless router to use at home and was wondering how concerned I should be with security. I have encryption keys, set it to only recoginze only my laptop and regular pc's MAC address's, and set the router to not transmit its' id. Is there anyting else I need to do to make it more secure? I plan to use the home laptop quite a bit for online banking and such and was just wondering if that was really a good idea or not. I've wandered around the yard a bit with the laptop and noticed the signal does'nt carry too far and I assume that if someone was able to get past the encyption, they would just about have to sit on my front porch to do it.

Oops, just now noticed Mitch's post from Nov. on the same topic https://www.sundance-communications.com/forum/Forum15/HTML/000057.html ....my deepest apologies