How can I determine which wireless networking gear is most secure against hackers?
All wireless signals used by networking gear sold must conform to certain standards. The wireless signal between your computer and any wireless access point is essentially the same. It has to be that way or you would need a different kind of wireless card for every different kind of wireless access point. Your wireless signal is broadcast in such a way that anyone nearby can listen in. So if you don’t use any encryption, anyone can listen in to your wireless signal and get the information being broadcast. That is why encryption was introduced. This means that you should be more concerned with are the wireless security protocols that the hardware supports. Most specifically, you should be looking to see that it supports WPA2 encryption, as this is the most comprehensive and most secure protocol available right now, especially when compared the the older WEP encryption which is basically trivial to crack. Any wireless gear that supports WPA2 is going to be your best line of defense betwe
