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Increase my security on a shared internet connection
My current set up is as follows.
I pay my neighbor a to share his internet connection. He uses WEP. I think this is because he has a nintendo or some such that does not support WPA. There is a little bit of a language barrier.
I just put together a couple of machines, and if/when I need to connect them to the internet, I just do it through the wireless cards in them and connect to his Linksys WRT54G Router
What I would like to do is network my machines together so that I can share files between them, and backup between them and all that good stuff. I would also like it if my neighbor could not share files with me. Or even see what computers I have, what folders are shared, etc. I am just a little paranoid, as his network is definitely the low-hanging fruit in my area. Every other router in range is WPA or WPA2 protected, so if someone were to try to hack into someone else's wifi, it would be his.
What is the best way to protect my computers from my neighbor and potentially malicious hackers? I have a WRT54G V2.0 (currently running Tomato 1.27 firmware) as well as a Microsoft MN-700 Router. My place is small, so wiring in my apartment is an option, but maintaining security and wireless would be sweet, for my smartphone and friends with laptops.
Also, my neighbor understandably doesn't want to give me access to his router, is there a way to check to see if he has any ports forwarded, if I were going to access my computer from the Web?
Please forgive my ignorance, and feel free to point me at any faqs or pre-existing threads I missed. And thanks in advance!