Originally posted by Gottedammerung:
Oh, I've heard that simply changing from a dynamic to a static IP address is one of the simplest and most effective way of doing it. Anyone know if that's true.
It's not. Firstly, changing your IP address to static does nothing if your Belkin is running DHCP, thus letting it hand out an address to whoever connects. Secondly, even if DHCP is off, if the traffic is not secured any attacker can sniff some packets and find out what IP range you're using, then either use an IP from that range or spoof your IP and use that.
If you are going to secure traffic, use WPA instead of WEP. WEP is less secure. I recommend WPA-PSK myself. With WPA-PSK you type a long passphrase (60 or so characters) into the router, than the same passphrase into every client. You should see something like that in the setup options.
Unfortunately it's 11:30 at night here so I'm too weary to be more specific
. You might find
this link quite useful though.
Cheers
Mr B