haroldo
join:2004-01-16
united state
 ·Comcast
2 edits | [Poll]Are there many open WiFi signals in your area? Poll
When you are at home are you picking up non-password protected WiFi signals? |
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view results · flash pie chart
Just wondering how many people protect their network. | |
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nwrickert
sand groper
Premium,MVM
join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL | Re: [Poll]Are there many open WiFi signals in your area? Three years ago, most were open. Currently most are protected, though in many cases with only WEP.
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JohnInSJ
Premium
join:2003-09-22
San Jose, CA | no, ALL are protected (missing choice, poll fail)
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haroldo
join:2004-01-16
united state
·Comcast
| Re: [Poll]Are there many open WiFi signals in your area? said by JohnInSJ  :no, ALL are protected (missing choice, poll fail) edited (choice added, poll pass) | |
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JohnInSJ
Premium
join:2003-09-22
San Jose, CA | Re: [Poll]Are there many open WiFi signals in your area? thanks, I voted (all) | |
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zach3
Zach
Premium
join:2000-05-04
Saint Louis, MO
clubs: | I am somewhat surprised but all 3 of the ones I can see are protected. One is corporate and 2 are single family signals.
Zach | |
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csiemers
join:2000-09-16
Portland, OR | I have 2 that turn up, one protected, the other not. | |
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DownTheShore
Maddie Knows Poopie
Premium
join:2003-12-02
Beautiful NJ
clubs: | 2 unprotected out of 13.
5 still using WEP. | |
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tmr250z
join:2009-02-25 | Three 2WIRE's around me, all protected by WPA, while I'm the lone router protected by WPA2.  | |
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SoonerAl
Old Enough To Know Better
Premium,MVM
join:2002-07-23
Norman, OK
1 edit | 6 of the 8 visible networks are secured in my immediate neighborhood as seen from my Ubuntu laptop. Of course I control two of the eight...
The blacked out SSID was quite vulgar FWIW...
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antdude
A Ninja Ant
Premium,VIP
join:2001-03-25
1 edit | Re: [Poll]Are there many open WiFi signals in your area? said by Thane_Bitter :(NS reports any encryption as WEP, although it could be WPE, WPA or WPA2. Offensive names & MAC removed)Too many, just check out these scans via NetStumbler. No security, default device names, and even the odd fool that use their own name as SSID markers.  Wow, are you in an apartment or something?
For me, only saw one unencrypted one as of a few weeks ago. I remember when half of them were opened a few years ago. I guess people noticed.
I think InSSIDer can see the differences of encryptions (WPA, EPA, etc.): »www.metageek.net/products/inssider ... | |
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Thane_Bitter
join:2005-01-20
London, ON
 ·Bell Sympatico
| Re: [Poll]Are there many open WiFi signals in your area? No, the first one was stuff I could easily pick up in the house, the second one was I had access to a very good directional antenna. Not sure why by the house seems rather transparent to WiFi, when I had equipment that supported WEP only I removed the antenna as to reduce its range to the neighbours, most people are trying to increase signal, I was trying to do the opposite.
Correct, InSSIDer does provide encryption data in addition to some neat graphs (channel graph especially), though at the moment I still feel that they compliment each others features. | |
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mudturtle74
join:2007-06-29
Killen, AL | Voted "No other signals near my home" since I am in a rural area. But, I will be expecting some soon, since the local WISP is expanding in my area. | |
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Link Logger
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-29
Calgary, AB
·Shaw
| Wifi security and awareness has come a long way in the last couple of years where most access points seemed to be open to now where most access points are security or at least reasonably security.
Blake
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haroldo
join:2004-01-16
united state | Re: [Poll]Are there many open WiFi signals in your area? ...thus the survey | |
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PeteC2
Got Mouse?
Premium,MVM
join:2002-01-20
Bristol, CT
clubs:
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| Re: [Poll]Are there many open WiFi signals in your area? Most are protected in my area, though it varies from time to time, as in an apartment complex folks come and go.
As with nwrickert, a few short years ago it would have been the opposite answer, most sites were not protected.
Most here are 11g WPA protected.
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Nerdtalker
Working Hard, Or Hardly Working?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
clubs:
| They were unprotected, then... er... someone changed the SSIDs to funny/ironic things like "I'M NOT GOOD WITH COMPUTERS OH SHI-" or "THIS SHOULDNT BE HERE WHAT TH-" or other such names. Then, about a week passed, they all went down and came back up with WPA2. Only one remains with WEP.
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DownTheShore
Maddie Knows Poopie
Premium
join:2003-12-02
Beautiful NJ
clubs: | Re: [Poll]Are there many open WiFi signals in your area? I like "No Stealing" using WEP - lol.  | |
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DaMaGeINC
The Lan Man
Premium
join:2002-06-08
Greenville, SC
clubs: | Re: [Poll]Are there many open WiFi signals in your area? Ya, I hacked him just to prove a point. I changed the name to "then using a better form of security" He changed it back to no stealing and kept the same wep enc. | |
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