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Wired LAN is faster and much more secure, since you're not broadcasting anything through the air. That means anyone who wants to connect to your network needs a line connection, they can't just park nearby and connect to it.

Wireless LAN is near painless to set up though. No wiring needed and you can have a network up and running in no time. It's also not that hard to make it fairly secure through use of passcodes and encryption.

If you want to secure a wireless connection here are some steps you can take.

Check out the following for further information

1) Don't use TCP/IP for File and Printer sharing!
Access Points are usually installed on your LAN, behind any router or firewall you may be using. 

2) Follow secure file-sharing practices

3) Enable WEP Encryption

4) Use WEP for data and Authentication
Some products allow you to separately set the Authentication method to "Shared Key" or "Open System"

5) Use non-obvious WEP keys and periodically change them

6) Secure your wireless router / Access Point (AP)
Your router or Access Point should require a password to access its Admin

7) Disallow router/ AP administration via wireless

8) Use MAC address based Access and Association control

9) Don't send the ESSID

10) Don't accept "ANY" ESSID
The "closed network" feature also won't accept connections from clients using the default "ANY" ESSID....

11) Use VPN
This is the most secure route to your data.

If you have any particular requirements then please contact us and see what we can do for you.

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