 rit56
join:2000-12-01
New York, NY
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| College Kids My router was locked with what I thought a decent password. One of my two computers expired due to age in April and I didn't bother replacing it. An old desktop. I shut down my router and I hard wired my lap top directly to the modem and noticed immediately dramatically improved download speeds. Within 2 weeks two of my neighbors ( I live in an apartment building with 20 units), 2 separate apartments, college kids came to my apartment and asked if they could pay me 10 or 20 dollars a month to piggy back off my internet as they didn't, I presume, want to incur the full cost of an install and monthly service. I declined both of them but I realized that they both and their roommates were using my internet for months. One of them told me there is software available on the internet that allows you to easily hack someones router. I never held it against either of them and as beautiful as they both were, lovely young ladies, I still said no. They can get their own. SO if they're downloading movies and music it must have appeared as if I was quite a hog.. I'm not a router fan. |
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1 edit | Hack the router? Sounds like you had a wireless access point in the router that was either unsecured or poorly secured (WEP). There is no "hacking" a WPA2-secured wireless network that has a strong key.
How did the other tenants know it was yours? I'd highly recommend using a SSID (network name) that is generic to your name or location. |
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 bentand IngaPremium
join:2004-10-04
Loveland, CO
·Comcast
| reply to rit56
said by rit56:I never held it against either of them and as beautiful as they both were, lovely young ladies, I still said no. I would have held something against them in exchange for free internet.
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Greedy Old Pigs |
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rit56
join:2000-12-01
New York, NY Reviews:
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to ElJay
I used my first name as the name of the router. go ahead and laugh. it was my first time setting one up and I named it after myself. so it was pretty easy to figure out where it originated. I'm not slamming routers I just had a bad experience. Same with bluetooth. Dell blows. This is my last PC by the way. I'm over it. I have a keyboard and mouse that connects with blue tooth and when the battery gets weak it loses it's link and when I put in new batteries it shows the keyboard but it doesn't work, won't link up. It then takes me a day sometimes many days to re-sync. It has made me wary of bluetooth technology. Oh when it does link up it shows all my neighbors devices and asks me if I want to link up to their equipment. I had a bad experience with this PC and it's glitchy things which I no longer want to tolerate. Microsoft products are not good. sorry for ranting. |
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 tshirtPremium,MVM
join:2004-07-11
Snohomish, WA
kudos:3
·Comcast
| reply to ElJay
said by ElJay:There is no "hacking" a WPA2-secured wireless network that has a strong key. YET.
WPA2 AES is Probably (as far as we know) the best choice AFTER wired. But once upon a time, wpa-tkip was good, before that WEP was......
Broadcast it and they will come........ |
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