Wireless interenet - Page 2 - Saxperience

Predator_R32^p · 21st March 2007, 23:24

lol steve, mine has a passphrase key, and the laptop use a wireless LAN, i can pick up next doors but the signal aint that good anyway, he would probablies give me the passkey anyway

woodsy · 21st March 2007, 23:26

all instructions will come with the router but in simple form ...

router plugs into the phone line which will pick up the broadband,

wireless lan card on your laptop (or if you have a desktop pc pluged into the router by cable) will pick up the broadband

Danny · 21st March 2007, 23:29

im on cable broadband NTL will that make any diffrence ?

Viper · 21st March 2007, 23:33

its only illegal if you get caught

Dave86 · 21st March 2007, 23:37

I can pick up somebodys wireless internet who lives round the corner!! At least a 100 yards away. I dont use it though. Serve them right if i did though, should have a pass key

Danny · 21st March 2007, 23:40

thanks for the advise peeps im off to bed gotta be up at 7 night all

Robb · 22nd March 2007, 01:17

im always finding wireless networks with the wifi on my phone

its the shiznit

BENSAX3 · 22nd March 2007, 07:55

ntl will make a difference. we are with them and have a netgear wgr614v6. recommended by ntl. works fine on a laptop with wireless built in and on two other pcs. comes with a fisk follow the steps on the disk to set it up. dead easy. recommened it

Alex^p · 22nd March 2007, 11:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by Danny

iv heard they can track my ip address ?

If you connect to a wireless network, the router will assign you a network ip, eg "192.168.1.101", that ip is not unique to the internet, so if you do something illegal it will be the network owner with police banging at his door.

b0t13 · 24th March 2007, 02:46

connecting to an open network (no password) isnt illegal as its a legal requirement for businesses etc. to have adequete security on the network, cracking the WEP or WPA code is illegal however.

we was learning about this in uni and its not illegal to use someones internet if its open and not passworded, but gaining entry to a secure network is illegal.

if its open then use it

vidal · 24th March 2007, 08:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by b0t13

connecting to an open network (no password) isnt illegal as its a legal requirement for businesses etc. to have adequete security on the network, cracking the WEP or WPA code is illegal however.

we was learning about this in uni and its not illegal to use someones internet if its open and not passworded, but gaining entry to a secure network is illegal.

if its open then use it

Gaining access to a non-secure network may or may not be illegal, however the usage of bandwidth and data allocation is technically illegal, although AFAICR there is no precedent for legal action being taken.

I would be interested to know how your neighbour would react to you taking a free ride off his connection. Some may be glad that you've hilighted a loophole in their network security, some may want to punch you! Don't forget, you will have to live next to them for some time, so work out if it's worth the hassle.

zakery_18 · 27th March 2007, 19:12

i need wireless mines crap!