Wherein customers ask me for support for ILLEGAL products...

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I think my mum thinks that if we do, that I'll be filming and uploading softcore porn in my room.

Note to self: Watch this thread.

[MrSmiley]

If I was a much more evil person than I was, I'd just set up an open wi-fi connection (I live near some businesses including 2 coffee places...), throw on a signal booster and then sit back to collect all the email, MSN and facebook passwords that would come my way.

Worried about torrents? Nah, I can filter that stuff

[sirwired]

I'm real impressed with those customers... they aren't very bright, but I'm completely shocked they didn't go all !!SNARL!!CUSS!!!ELEVENTY!!!!! on you!

SirWired

[tropicsgoddess]

Nobody tried to get into "free wifi LOL "

My friend put his as get your own internet.

[Digitalpotato]

We have what I call "Linkpiss wireless network". Sure it's alright and I actually do connect similar to speeds I would with an Ethernet, but it's just completely unreliable.


Some computers would move at speeds comparable to the worst horror stories of DialUp and AOHell while others would practically have the page loaded the second you clicked it, and the neighbours managed to leech the network so guess what? A lot of our bandwidth would keep getting stolen so most of our computers would lag on the internet and games owuld give you latencies in the Vegeta Level. But on top of that...whenever a computer other than a laptop or the desktop in my room was shut off or rebooted....the entire network went down. Meaning we'd have to set it up again and that was harder than it sounded. My dad says you can literally put the Linksys router inside the computer after directly wiring it and it'd still not recognize that it's hooked up.

[prb]

My unencrypted network used to be called "Free Midget Horse Porn", a shockingly high number of people connected to it, but none when it was just "HomeNetwork"

[Bliss]

I have my home router set up so that only certain MAC Addresses can get on it. I didn't really feel like messing wiht passwords and what not.

Put a password on it.

A) Mac addresses are VERY easy to spoof, so they can use the router with ease

B) Even if they don't use it, having no pass means all your packets are transfered on the open and easy to sniff, thus if you don't use SSl for your email for example they can sniff your email password easily, and your password in any page that doesn't uses https, etc etc etc,

[Jay 2K Winger]

I bought a wireless router for our home once. My folks were out of town, and I wanted to be able to finally hook my 360 up to XBL. (There are no phone jacks in my room, and no easily accessible phone jacks by the TV downstairs.) I had a wireless network adapter on my 360 already, and had found one of our neighbor's signals. It, of course, was encrypted.

The first router I bought, a NetGear router, was, frankly, a piece of shit. I followed the set-up instructions TO THE LETTER, and the lights were even blinking or lighting up as they were supposed to, but it kept claiming "cannot detect internet connection." Never mind that the "Internet" light on the router was lighting up and blinking as it's supposed to.

I returned it, bought a LinkSys router that worked fine. Got on XBL, Wii's online service, and PlayStation Network, and my dad very quickly got himself hooked up for the internet, as did my sister when she came home from school.

Naturally, I encrypted it and made sure the password to the router was complex.

Then we switched to Verizon FiOS and it came with its own wireless router. Still works fine.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Then we switched to Verizon FiOS and it came with its own wireless router. Still works fine.

I also have the Verizon FiOS wireless router. But I also have a wired network in my house, so the wireless feature is disabled. Should I ever enable it, it will have a strong password.

In other news, when I first got my present computer with a wireless connection, I checked to see if any of the neighbors had a wireless router available. No one did. I just checked again, and found two security enabled wireless networks. I have at least two smart neighbors.

[Camry178]

my last connection was "stop trying to steal my internets!" though it has varied before.

Mine reads: "My WiFi Not Yours, Ha Ha".

[DGoddessChardonnay]

My phone automatically scans for open wifi hotspots and, where available, uses them instead of the phone network for internet access. Of course I only use it where there's legal free wifi available (cafes etc).

There are 6 wifi hotspots I can see from my living room, but they're all encrypted. Which is as it should be.

Same with my laptop. I can scan and find at least 3 other wifi networks, but even outside on the front porch all of them have a very low signal except for mine. And all of them are encrypted (I automatically connect to mine since the WEP key is stored on the laptop.)

And that's how it should be.

[Munkie]

the way my roommate and i set up our internets was by using a numerical code to a written phrase.

And when i browse the local wirelesses, theres at least 2 that are open. the other six are encrypted or security-enabled

[Andara Bledin]

The last time we browsed the wireless connections in our area with our XBox 360 (a friend gave us the wireless adapter), we found absolutely nothing.

Considering what a low-class, low-tech neighborhood this is, we're not surprised.

^-.-^

[Skeksin]

Meh. My wireless is unencrypted (but the login is changed). Mostly due to the fact that I am way out in the country and if your stealing my wireless then your on my property and I'm getting the shotgun and calling the police....

[Dreamstalker]

Ours is unencrypted for now; the trick is creating a WPA key that my mom will actually remember (of course it will be written down, but I know that if her laptop "forgets" it she may freak out).