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Hi Greg, How many MAC addressed are enabled on your filter? The way an individual breaks through is by spoofing his or her MAC address to the one you enable on the filter list. This can be done in under a minute, and is very simple. If you have more than one MAC address enabled on your filter, and the machines with those addressed are not connected, it is simply a cake walk for anyone to break in. They simply wait for one to connect, capture their MAC, wait for them to sign off, then they connect using the MAC address. MAC address filtering simply does not go far enough. It is a small fence to hop, but it's easily hopped. However, if you are afraid of being a target and if filtering is the only protocol you have in place, I suggest you look into enabling WPA or WPA2 on your wireless router, Greg. Make sure you use a password that is not in the dictionary. Try here. Investing in a low price VPN like iPhantom is also an excellent idea. Hope this helps, Matthew Sgherzi
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