Random WiFi Signal

[AlphaBravo]

Im just in my room reading a Book and listening to music on my pda, when i acidenty press the wrong button and turn on the wifi......and now im connected to a wifi signal that ive never picked up before [ive tryed scanning for ones in my area but never found one...] and now im posting this...

Craig


damm this touch screen keyboard :p

[mostickity]

hmmm..... weird. if i were you i would turn it off just in case

[Woodlouse2002]

Seems like your neighbours have gone wireless.

[Saitek]

Lol! As Woody indicated, unless they don't have a firewall you can freely use the net.

[AlphaBravo]

there wifi has no encryption... so its ther fault really... i mean even the crappy wanadoo wireless has encyption! even if it is only WEP....

[Scorpiоn]

Indeed, Sir.

When I tried out my wireless (when my laptop was new) awhile back, I tried using someone else intranet, just for grins, but to no avail.

Stupid passwords...  I felt nice, so I didn't pull a page out of my hacker book.

[Katahu]

There is a library here at LRAFB that uses that sort of stuff. Fortunately, they let people connect to their server wirelessly for free. The downside to it: The more people connected, the bigger the traffic, the slower and more crowded the server becomes.

That's why I went ahead and bought my own direct cable connection. I don't like wireless. Too much lag.

[Tom.]

Lol i have a wireless network which connects to and apple airport express but nobody ever uses it because no one lives near enough

[Omag 2.0]

My nefew has free internet acces trough his neighbours wireless network. All I got? Chit-chat from radio-amateurs trough my speaker-boxes...  >:(  :)

[Jared]

lol, our neighbor left his wireless unsecure for a few months when he first got it..and I could get to his printer...SO...every once in awhile I would get on and send a racy picture to the printer...

the poor kid next door couldn't quite figure out why his dad was amd at him all last summer

ok ok so I really didn't do this....but it sure sounded like fun

[Scorpiоn]

That should go in the jokes forum!

[chomp_rock]

Using a high gain, omnidirectional antenna on my PC I can easily connect to many local networks when they're up (the unsecured ones).  WEP really isn't a big obstacle if you know what you're doing I've been told, I've never tried to crack it but some friends of mine do it regularly (a hobby?).

 I'm usually the provider though, I have a high gain omni on my router (external, it isn't in the house) and provide access to some local folks who can't afford high speed internet.  It's mostly utilized by some local college students who are living in a house together (6 of them).  I've an agreement with them, if they keep it down and low-key with their parties they get free internet from me, and seeing how I have the fastest access available via cable (6mbps), it's quite good for them to comply

I'm scarcely home to use it so it really doesn't matter how much bandwidth they use...