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How wrong is it to use other people's wireless?


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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?

 

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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 :(

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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....

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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.

 

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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

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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!

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