SSX4life
Premium
join:2004-02-13
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| I love to war-drive! who doesn't!
I love to war-drive, it's free #1 and #2 I get good speed for when I need to check my mail, surf DSLR, and mabie even game a little bit if I get the chance 
I see unsecure weps as a simple means of checking your mail and hopping on the internet for a fw minuites. It's so common in many places, (not to mention a plague across surburbia) that I can have 6 to 10 open acces points in small towns under 10K people in some areas.
I don't see myself stopping checking my mail on buisness trips or on vacation for free any time soon.
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nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
·Comcast
| "friendly" riders
there is a reason encryption is available for wireless systems....it's called "security".
May not be great, but it should keep your "friendly" neighbors from helping themselves.
I wasn't using encryption until I just happened to catch an unkown computer connected to my wireless router. |
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Fraoch
join:2003-08-01
London, ON
| Broadband for Cheapskates
Linksys is a great no-cost Wi-Fi service provider! They have an AP accessible from my home!:D
Light broadband packages are common in Canada, but their prices are still relatively high. The best "light" broadband I was on was 512 kbps, which was fine for web surfing and light downloading. Most other providers were at 128 kbps, which is still fine for web surfing but more restrictive for downloading. Anything over 2 MB took a while...Now both major providers have increased their light speeds to 256 kbps, which will make downloads a bit more tolerable.
However the prices are still not that great for price/performance ratio. 256 kbps for $29.99/month plus taxes.:p |
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exocet_cm
In memory of dadkins
Premium
join:2003-03-23
New Orleans, LA
clubs:   |  Gotta love...
...that "Default" ISP. Never lets you down and always there when you travel.  |
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Mikey187R
@bellsouth.ne
| Free
Last time I took a 30minute drive from home to work I pulled 260 AP's with netstumbler. Over 50% of them were unsecured. But I do have an Proxim card with an external antenna on the top of my car With a good card and a external antenna I can pull 3 of my neighbors connection from inside the middle of my house. |
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Mikey187R
@bellsouth.ne
| 2nd note. I found that limiting which MAC addresses are allowed to connect in my netgear was better than using encryption. Encryption seemed to slow the netgear down too much dunno if netgear(MR814v3) sucks or what? But what do I expect for a $40 wireless gateway router. |
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exocet_cm
In memory of dadkins
Premium
join:2003-03-23
New Orleans, LA
clubs:
·Cox HSI
·Suddenlink
 ·Cingular Wireless
 ·AT&T Southeast
·Charter Pipeline
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said by Mikey187R:Last time I took a 30minute drive from home to work I pulled 260 AP's with netstumbler. Over 50% of them were unsecured. But I do have an Proxim card with an external antenna on the top of my car With a good card and a external antenna I can pull 3 of my neighbors connection from inside the middle of my house. I made a cable so I could attach my GPS to the serial port of my laptop, used wigle and mapped out the locations of the networks 
That was pretty cool, plus ppl traveling can have a map
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sharksfan3
Premium
join:2004-02-16
Poughkeepsie, NY | reply to Mikey187R
Watch for MAC address cloning! It's easier than you may think. |
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Mikey187R
@bellsouth.ne | Guess I need to figure out how to check for that. My connection has been acting weird lately. Lots of timing out on the wireless network. |
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Boomerang86
Got FUD?
Premium
join:2002-10-18
VampireState
clubs:
·RoadRunner Cable
 ·VOIPo
·Time Warner VOIP
| Road Runner Lite YMMV
Friends of mine had previously canceled RR and went back to dial-up for a few months. They wanted to give Vonage a try and they talked to someone in nycap.rr.com (wife used to be in the ISP business and knows some peeps). They got RR Lite from the get-go for $29.95 a month and they're pleased.
If the phone reps won't sign you up, visit the local office and ask- BE PERSISTENT and tell them your friend already has it; they can deny it exists only for so long. |
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SSX4life
Premium
join:2004-02-13 | reply to sharksfan3
Re: Free
If you limit your mac addresses that can connect it helps better than incryption. I HATE the encryption at my school. It slows it down so much and limits the range too.
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Mikey187R
@bellsouth.ne | reply to Boomerang86
Re: Road Runner Lite YMMV
Wonder if they have RR Lite in Central Florida? |
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dibbb
join:2003-09-19
·Time Warner VOIP
| reply to Boomerang86
How much does the "dumb down" version of RR cost, and what speeds does it have?
BTW - on some wireless routers and NICs, you can decrease the "power level". This can help limit the range of your WLAN if you think you may have people connecting to it. |
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jameskris
join:2005-01-13
Sayre, OK |  reply to Fraoch
Re: Broadband for Cheapskates
Where can a person findout if Linksys covers their area? I can't find anyting on google. |
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Mikey187R2
@bellsouth.ne | reply to exocet_cm
Re: Free
I havent got into that much yet but check out this, some war flying. »www.tomshardware.com/column/2004···dex.html |
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covertwar
join:2002-06-01
Colorado Springs, CO | reply to Fraoch
Re: Broadband for Cheapskates
There is not just Linksys, don't forget about NETGEAR, belkin54g, among others. |
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
·PHONE POWER
 ·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T CallVantage
·Time Warner VOIP
·RoadRunner Cable
1 edit | reply to jameskris
quote:
Where can a person findout if Linksys covers their area? I can't find anyting on google.
»www.netstumbler.com/
»www.kismetwireless.net/
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removed
Crisis Management Squad
Premium,VIP
join:2002-02-08
Houston, TX
clubs:
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Re: I love to war-drive! who doesn't!
Houston has a lot of them - but a fair amount are encrypted.
I am in the middle of moving, and my DSL is to be cut off and moved any day now. I will still have 'net access once SBC moves the DSL - my neighbor has an open AP that is connected to his RoadRunner cable modem. Woot - no dialup!
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jameskris
join:2005-01-13
Sayre, OK
| reply to SSX4life
So does one need a wireless network card to try to find an open connection, or can I use my wireless router at home to see if there is a connection overlapping my house. I currently have a wireless router, but only have one computer hooked up to it right now. |
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tapeloop
1959. I try to kick the ball. I miss.
Premium
join:2004-06-27
Airstrip One
| reply to SSX4life
(corporate) History repating
This sounds like the same thing that happened to the airline industry. People were paying $1000s of dollars for "first class" tickets, business travelers got gouged for last-minute travel, and passengers had to go through the painful routing of the hub-and-spoke system to get to their destinations.
So Southwest Air comes along and figures out that people just want to get from point a to point b quickly, cheaply, and with minimal hassle. The legacy carriers have been playing catch-up ever since.
Now ISPs are scared to death that if they offer cut-rate broadband, they'll lose their customer base. You watch and see how long it is before they're playing catch-up too... |
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