I upgraded my wired router with a wireless router this weekend and noticed this router has additional setting for DOS Attacks(Denial of Service). Should I turn this on? I am not running a server. Also none of the Macs have Wi-Fi (I picked up the wireless router for the Nintendo DS I gave my wife for christmas, which has built in Wi-Fi). I did protect the router with a 128 bit WEP password.

One cool thing about the Nintendo DS is it can be used as a Wi-Fi locater.

Yes, you should turn on the DoS if your router has it. Just because you don't host a server doesn't mean you won't be a target.

If your Nintendo and the router does WPA, use that instead of WEP. The FBI showed how WEP can be broken in less then 5 minutes with tools freely available on the 'net.

If you don't have WPA, leave the WEP - it's better than nothing (just not much).

Thanks Jack,

I looked up more info at the Nintendo Wi-Fi site, the DS only supports WEP.