Roger Huffadine

Worcester

Innovator

Not surprising - I spent an hour last week re-jigging my neighbour's broadband wi-fi so that her son could connect his PS3.
The PS3 didn't like the WEP that had been set up - so I decided to go for MAC address filtering.
Firstly how many of the population would know how to do this?
OK now we come to Windows Vista - the PCs that also used the connection didn't have the MAC addresses on the base of the PC - so I tried to look in the obvious places - only to discover that the MAC addresses were "unavailable" using the normal control panel 'system' diagnostics.
Heh- let's try Word - Help - About - System.
Have you ever tried to navigate to this function in Word 2008 - *!*k - me what a song and dance - eventually I was able to find the MAC addresses that Windows Vista couldn't - Thank god for the good ol' Word - Help - About diagnostics.
So - not much hope for wi-fi security when Redmond Washington USA ensure that you need MCSE, a PhD and low animal cunning to discover a simple MAC address.