slug Posted July 21, 2006 Author Share Posted July 21, 2006 I have said pretty much all I know, that there is a possibility that PCI cards pick up stronger signal (based on nothing but speculation) Whereas USB ones have the potential to be dangled out of windows, which is often a must if you have any distance to cover. I use a Belkin one, it usually comes up with signal 'low' and works fine, sometimes it comes up as 'very low' if its not fully dangling out the window and usually won't work in this case, but seems to be fine right now. One thing for sure, they don't need strong signals! I know nothing about other equipment, except I'm pretty sure that you can piggy back a signal through another router, which would be a useful way to use any obselete wireless-b routers, this of course would greatly increase your throw distance, I suppose the advantage of this might be that you could somehow conspire over a local residential area to spread some local wifi site over a greater distance, and use it heavily at night, the same would go for businesses that have unprotected networks, this would also work well on University campuses. I really don't know much about the issue. I've had a thought, I might try play some Battlefield. How bandwidth intensive/ bandwidth limit sucking does that tend to be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TetsuoShima Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 LOL, you guys are pure evil. :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c4evap Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 This is funny as hell' date=' im going to comp USA this weekend and buying all the goodies needed to become a wireless thief as well. The beauty of it is you cant be prosecuted for downloading/uploading copyrighted material. muhahahaha[/quote'] I hope you get caught. c4 :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slug Posted July 23, 2006 Author Share Posted July 23, 2006 I thought I had been caught, I'd had some drinks and I was trying to get a friend's laptop to connect to the internet and was having trouble so I opened the living room window and pretty much stuck it out there. I got a little spooked when someone there turned the lights on, hence not out for the evening. probably with my activities in full view. Then I couldn't get it to work for a good 24 hours, its OK again now, I suppose it may be possible that its been so damn hot that I couldn't get a signal. Screw them, they have a Porche, and their pontless fence actually goes all the way round their two acre property. And they have no daughter. Probably just as well, she'd probably suck. Its somewhat ironic, losing the net felt like good motivation to get organised and move out of the god damn countryside, but I suddenly had no means of going about this. From now on the emphasis is going to be on residential research, if only I hadn't just lost the incentive.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megalith Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 On the subject of good wifi equipment yes a pci card does have the best signal reception (i use a usb dongle myself tho on my home network) also would advise getting one that is 108Megs as if the target is a 108 and you use a 54 you will slow the whole wifi network down to 54, a 108 will happily work at 54 tho. so yeah get the fastest one you can. i hate Porsches i'd be tempted to chip the paintwork on it lol. Sounds to me like they need to share something in their lives so why not their bandwidth huh. Been away a couple of days slug just got ya msg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcant Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 Its Possible they don't care, I recently set up wireless access points for a smallish business and while the network itself is hidden and heavily encrypted, we left internet access open to anyone local, its a fast broadband connection which is only used nine till five for emails!! we figured what the hell, if someone can use it let them, costs us nothing, BTW its unlimited usage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slug Posted July 23, 2006 Author Share Posted July 23, 2006 Here's what I get: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcant Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 try admin/admin or for linksys leave the username blank and the passwrod as admin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slug Posted July 23, 2006 Author Share Posted July 23, 2006 Nil on both counts, its looking like their router may be password protected, maybe they figured out how to do that, I suppose it would make sense since otherwise I could probably block them off their own router! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcant Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 I used a sweek router one time that remembered which PC was used to configure it and would only allow access from that particular PC, unless you hit the reset button, so it could be that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDad Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 My router is set so it can't be reconfigured from a wireless connection. One can only change settings from a hard connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TetsuoShima Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 heh, I hate wireless. No wireless cr*p for me. It's way to slow and gives way to many complications. Just run a cable to every room you need it and you're better off imho. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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