If you find that it is the encryption that is slowing your wifi connection you can turn it off and still be able to stop others from using your network. To do this you enable MAC address filtering. Once you turn MAC filtering on you have to enter each wireless device's MAC address into a table on the router. Don't forget to change the SSID from the default and to not broadcast the SSID. That stops them two ways if they don't know your SSID they can't get on and if their MAC isn't in the table they can't get on. To connect the notebook the first time you have enter the MAC into the router table. Then on the notebook create a new wireless connection and type in the SSID (remeber it is case sensitive) you changed it to in the router. It will not auto discover your network. You may get a wireless network found ssid not broadcast if he has a netowrk sniffer loaded. The only draw back to this is that it is possible for someone to receive your broadcasts and do a packet capture on the stream and since it is not encypted they could see what you are sending and receiving but that is very unlikely as it would take alot of effort on their part to do so and they would have to be close by. Your wireless router will likely have a range of just a 100 feet or so less if it has to go through walls. (the lower in the house the antenna is the shorter the range is as well) So they would have to be close by do anything. To test your area of coverage take the laptop on a walkabout. You will be able to get a fairly accurate idea of how far away some nefarious person woud have to be to capture any transmissions. Some notebooks have a better antenna than others so you could add a bit to the coverage area to account for that. BTW none of this affects a wired connection.
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