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 Jodokast96Stupid people really piss me off.Premium
join:2005-11-23
Erial, NJ
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 justbitsMore fiber than ATT can handlePremium
join:2003-01-08
Chicago, IL | reply to blackflag
Access point vendors are to blame. Access points are still on sale that only support 802.11b and WEP. |
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It is only wrong cause this idiot was leeching the connection. Come on this guy had cardboard up in his windows, he was planning on being there for awhile. Why didn't he just go to local hotspot and chill. Maybe now he will invest in a better wifi card/antenna and grab signals from inside his home instead |
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 manfmmdPremium
join:2003-01-14
Earth, TX
 ·AT&T Southwest
 ·CMA Access
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Don't blame 802.11b. 
Perhaps they are still selling that hardware because therre is a market for it, but every vendor also offers an AP that is capable of WPA or WPA/WPA2...
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m8trix
join:2003-12-24
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:3 | reply to blackflag
the guy was probably playing WoW...lol |
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 Jerm
join:2000-04-10
Richland, WA
kudos:2 | reply to blackflag
Uhh no one is to blame? I blame the cops cause they made it a big deal.
From my house with a 24dBi grid and a 500mW amplifier I can pick up no less than 48 different Wifi networks.
Alas I have 10mbit cable thus no use for the 48, but it just goes to show...
This has been legal 'gray area' for uhh like 5 years now, so I would assume at this point any open network might as well be considered free for use.
As a favorite saying goes: I use the isp called 'linksys' - it has great national coverage! |
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 brianPremium
join:2002-05-02
Lake Forest, CA | reply to ossito16
Re: how is this wrong? it was the local hot spot... at least for him.  |
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Hek yea there's a market. I have been using cantennas and Linky/DD-wrt wireless access pushing 2 years now at home to anonomously DL movies by the terrabyte. I have all their passwords reset so all my setups stay put and the trouble making riff raff stays off. Nobody complains and nothing ever changes. Booting me is as simple as pushing the reset button and it has only happened twice. But I am surrounded with perpetual open access so it's 2 down and 20 still available. And I haven't even plugged in my converted satilite dish for more distant choices.  I love WiFi and I love being anonomous... |
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simple. He was in his car downloading pr0n. Probably told his wife over and over again that he was working late or something and he was doing that. He was busted, in more ways than one. |
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 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to anomus
This is one of the reasons (and bluetooth interference) that I've gone to EOP (Ethernet over Powerline)... hardly anyone uses it, and its encrypted as well on my own network. Distance is also limited.
»www.netgear.com/Products/Powerli···101.aspx |
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He should have gone to the county library... I don't know about there, but here the county says their WiFi reaches in to the parking lot of most of the branches and is available for uses even if the library is closed. Yes, they offer free WiFi 24x7 in the public library parking lot. (This IS in writing in their brochures and web page...) |
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donaldkPremium
join:2000-10-19
Thunder Bay, ON Reviews:
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Re: Uhh no one is to blame? RX amplifier? me want LOL
Right now I rely on a 7dB Omni antenna.... the card can TX up to 1W which allows me to hit the faint wifi spots.
But paid hardline cable service when I can get it is the win! Wifi is nice for travelling around, but if I am at a location for at least a few months I get my own subscription to a local ISP. |
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