Your Neighbour's wireless connection...

[yoko*]

I'm new to this. Never used the internet on my laptop before until now...I have two wireless networks available showing up... The one entitled "linksys" is the one that we have at home and I know it's ours, but netgear just appeared out of nowhere.. so *i think* someone in my neighbourhood is sharing their connection and doesn't even know it. and I'm currently surfing the net on their signal.

Is it like a bad thing to be using someone else's wireless connection or something?

:P


uhhh..

[Gusto]

yeah, i can connect to my neighbours network too. there are about 5 networks around my apartment that i can see from time to time.

[.anya]

yeah, i have 2 or 3 that are available to connect to from my house. Since I don't have wireless here, it's reeeeeallly nice to be able to be in different rooms and surf the 'net sometimes. I'm not feeling too guilty about it - i don't look at anything too incriminating, and the savvy ones will kick me off their networks soon enough. :)

[miss.myra]

Originally Posted by gusto

yeah, i can connect to my neighbours network too. there are about 5 networks around my apartment that i can see from time to time.

The record for mine was 12!

[yoko*]

Originally Posted by .anya

i don't look at anything too incriminating, and the savvy ones will kick me off their networks soon enough. :)

is there any way that they would know that you're using their connection?

again, I rarely use this laptop for surfing so I don't understand how this stuff works.

[yoko*]

Originally Posted by miss.myra

The record for mine was 12!

nice!

[cheeseburger]

courier shows my wireless router is in vancouver depot.. it will be here tomorrow!!

Laptop here on sunday or monday!!

<3

[yoko*]

Originally Posted by Kenny Grant

courier shows my wireless router is in vancouver depot.. it will be here tomorrow!!

Laptop here on sunday or monday!!

<3

nicer!

[wum]

Originally Posted by .anya

I'm not feeling too guilty about it - i don't look at anything too incriminating, and the savvy ones will kick me off their networks soon enough. :)

they know what i look at???

[.anya]

Originally Posted by yoko*

is there any way that they would know that you're using their connection?

I'm really computer-retarded but yes, apparently they can see that someone is connected to their network (and disconnect you, if they wish) but they cannot trace who it is. Like, there is no way that they would be able to find out that it's actually you who's using the signal. That's where the whole problem comes in, because if you're looking at something like child porn and it's caught, only the person whose wireless nework it is can be convicted for it.

[sNyx]

my neighbourhoods only unsecure connection is 'barbie'
haha, we jacked her for a few days, then got ours hooked up

'yourafag' =)

[mapleleaf4ever]

When I lived in Surrey I would leech off of three different connections.

[impure]

sometimes we take the laptop in the car to burn CD's while we drive and use the maps and i manage to get into networks around town.
some of the passwords are unbelievably easy to figure out.

[esoter1c]

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMK It's easy to wardrive its free wi-fi for everyone.

[yoko*]

so how does one secure a connection?

[yoko*]

Originally Posted by .anya

I'm really computer-retarded but yes, apparently they can see that someone is connected to their network (and disconnect you, if they wish) but they cannot trace who it is. Like, there is no way that they would be able to find out that it's actually you who's using the signal. That's where the whole problem comes in, because if you're looking at something like child porn and it's caught, only the person whose wireless nework it is can be convicted for it.

i see ;)

[narc]

Someone near the gastown steamclock has their SSID set as 'fnkisreallygay'

[diva]

^ call linksys tech support and they'll walk you through the set up
i secured mine this week
i have their number on my cell...
1 866 242 8558

i think it's 24/7

[yoko*]

Originally Posted by diva

^ call linksys tech support and they'll walk you through the set up
i secured mine this week
i have their number on my cell...
1 866 242 8558

i think it's 24/7

Thanks esi. ;)

[bebu*funfun]

question is.. how do u break into ppls wireless connections? like pwords?
totally new on this laptop thing too, tryin to figure out how to "borrow" connection..when im out and about.

i dont see much harm in someone using ure connections... i duno i guess it can possibly slow ure own connection down, but if its only by a tad..sharing is nice.

[diva]

you have a mac with an airport icon on the top of your window, right?
it should be right next to your volume icon

click it, and if there are wireless signals around, you can access them--unless they've password protected them

edit:


so like, if my wireless didn't need a password, you could click on that icon see "Esi's wireless" underneath and be able to use my connection

[sNyx]

Originally Posted by Narc

Someone near the gastown steamclock has their SSID set as 'fnkisreallygay'

HAHA! I hope your serious, cuz that would be a laugh. Damn ION ;)

[Gusto]

Originally Posted by bebu*funfun

question is.. how do u break into ppls wireless connections? like pwords?
totally new on this laptop thing too, tryin to figure out how to "borrow" connection..when im out and about.

i dont see much harm in someone using ure connections... i duno i guess it can possibly slow ure own connection down, but if its only by a tad..sharing is nice.

the easiest ones will be open and you can connect to them without a username or password or anything. harder ones will have wep encryption and require a password be entered. using tools like kismac you can collect enough wireless packets to crack the wep key, though. i only know about that in theory, though, haven't tried it.

sometimes you'll see networks with names like "netgear" or "linksys", which usually means they don't know how to change their access point settings, or haven't bothered. if thats the case, then they probably haven't changed the default passwords either. check out a list like this to match default usernames and passwords to manufacturers: http://remote-exploit.org/content/wlanvuln.html

[acidic_liquid]

When I'm at home, I use this wifi network named after my street. I'm assuming it's an open network because I've used it since I got my laptop.

When I'm at school, I use the schools wifi network.

I've never had to connect my laptop to a ADSL/Cable.

Although, when I send/receive files on MSN, it's terribly slow. I think it's the program, or I need to get my own wireless router :p. Other than that, everything's fast.

Like it says on here, you're not the one who should worry if you're using someone else's connection. They should :p

[cheeseburger]

Originally Posted by yoko*

nicer!

yippee, my router is here

The kooch is up and running
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