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All cables sold at retail are grossly overpriced. Here are some examples:Best buy sells a 6foot USB cable for $33. Their employees can buy stuff for BB cost + 5% employees pay about $2 for that same cable.Same applies to network cables at virtually every retailer. They make almost nothing on printers and computers and networking equipment so they make their profits on the cables.Even the cable crimper mentioned above is not worth $50 something, I got mine for $10 online. I also picked up some testing equipment and such for a reasonable rate. Or save yourself the trouble and use google to find yourself cat5e patch cables for as little as 79cents a piece. Order a case of them to spread the shipping cost, and sell the extras to your neighbors for $5 a piece. You'll make a killing and your neighbors will beg you for more.

To adjust the MTU on most linksys routers/acces points visit the devices web based configuration page. It defaults to an Ip of 192.168.1.1 with no username and a password of admin. The actual setting is probably in the advanced options.Not all wireless adapter let you manipulate that setting by default. A hacked firmware may be needed for some linksys stuff.You don't need a crossover cable to connect an Xbox 360 unless you are connecting it directly to a PC's ethernet port. Its really pretty painless to get everything setup via a standard patch cable to the router if you ar in an environement that would allow you to run cable (unfished basement, drop ceiling, etc)The value you need to set to for your xbox 360 is 1364 btw.

Hmm, let see heres a short list of they might do. Of course after many of them the authorities would come knocking on your door and might even take your PCs and other elctronics as evidence. Sure you'd get them back eventually, but.... 1. Distribute a new virus, worm, trojan etc. 2. Setup a file share with copyrighted material. 3. Sniff your network traffic and grab your email passwords right out of the air. 4. Set up a man in the middle exploit and gain access to your more sensitive passwords and information. 5. Log in to your machine using the default administrator password and totally thrash your data, or just steal it. 6. How about full fledged ID theft. It certainly could happen. 7. Reconfigure your network so that they are now in control. You'd be forced to hard reset it to regain control. Of course at the same time I true hacker could probably break into your secured network and do the same things if they really wanted to. They probably won't though, since your next door neighbor has a wide open "low hanging fruit" network. The important question you didn't ask is "How secure should my network be" and my answer to that is just secure enough that it doesn't inconvenience the users but that it can deter the potential attackers. In my environment where my neighbors are far from tech savvy and they have wide open networks, Simple MAC address filtering with low level encryption is more than enough.