wireless internet question
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Originally Posted by beanolo,Dec 14 2004, 06:21 PM
secured or unsecured on wireless doesnt really matter... thats jus who the connection is available through... if your neighbor has a stronger connection... heres what you do..
1) cancel your service
2) leech onto your neighbor until they cancel
and your good to go! secure or unsecure only depends on the websites visited... as long as the browser starts with https:// your good to go
doesnt matter where you connect.. starbucks.. library.. dont matter... https and your good to go... jus clear the cache/cookies if your using a shared comp
1) cancel your service
2) leech onto your neighbor until they cancel
and your good to go! secure or unsecure only depends on the websites visited... as long as the browser starts with https:// your good to go
doesnt matter where you connect.. starbucks.. library.. dont matter... https and your good to go... jus clear the cache/cookies if your using a shared comp
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Originally Posted by exceltoexcel,Dec 14 2004, 06:30 PM
secured or unsecured on wireless doesnt really matter... thats jus who the connection is available through...
WEP is to secure your router from their traffic and is very important to keep people from preforming illegal activity from your connection and you having to explain why that child pron was downloaded from your internet connection to the nice FBI guy. I think this is the wake up call that everyone should listen to! While you can prove someone did hijack your connection the FBI will still be showing up at your house and I think you really don't want anyone speculating why.
If you set up your card to only connect to WEP secure wireless routers then you won't connect to anyone's except yours because you won't have the same password (well you shouldn't) as anyone elses so your card will not connect to theirs and visa versa .
I use WEP because I don't know what the people leaching off of my connection are doing, I don't want to support someone elses crime by accident.
Here's one thing I do know for sure, nothing is secure, nothing.
WEP is to secure your router from their traffic and is very important to keep people from preforming illegal activity from your connection and you having to explain why that child pron was downloaded from your internet connection to the nice FBI guy. I think this is the wake up call that everyone should listen to! While you can prove someone did hijack your connection the FBI will still be showing up at your house and I think you really don't want anyone speculating why.
If you set up your card to only connect to WEP secure wireless routers then you won't connect to anyone's except yours because you won't have the same password (well you shouldn't) as anyone elses so your card will not connect to theirs and visa versa .
I use WEP because I don't know what the people leaching off of my connection are doing, I don't want to support someone elses crime by accident.
Here's one thing I do know for sure, nothing is secure, nothing.
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Lets say that someone was leeching off my wireless connection and they were downloading or uploading files either to a website or via email. Could I see what they were doing and what they transferred?
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Originally Posted by MrForgetable,Dec 14 2004, 12:55 AM
does it ask you for a username or password or does it just not find that page?
try "admin" as the username and leave the password blank if it does.
sometimes it may be 192.168.1.1?
try "admin" as the username and leave the password blank if it does.
sometimes it may be 192.168.1.1?
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Originally Posted by allkingz,Dec 15 2004, 11:06 AM
Lets say that someone was leeching off my wireless connection and they were downloading or uploading files either to a website or via email. Could I see what they were doing and what they transferred?
Most wireless routers have an address logging feature, so you'll easily see where they're sending stuff to. But a typical Windows install doesn't have the tools you'd need to actually look at the data being sent.
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From: limerick
If you've lost the password just hold the reset button down for 10 seconds usually that reset the default password to blank and the user name to admin. thi might vary from router to router but so far it worked for us robotics and d-link
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From: Roswell
well if you dont wanna latch onto free service (which would be nice because the majority of users barely use a tenth of it even at peak internet searching, so youre not technically stealing from them 
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But to answer your question, you can encrypt your signal with WEP or WPA. OR, you can turn on your default router's firewall. If you dont want people to see your connection, you can disable the "Broadcast" ability so that only you, who knows the gate name and password, can get in.
Oh yeah, dont forget to add a password to your router settings so that if someone gets on your connection, they cant screw with your router.
) But to answer your question, you can encrypt your signal with WEP or WPA. OR, you can turn on your default router's firewall. If you dont want people to see your connection, you can disable the "Broadcast" ability so that only you, who knows the gate name and password, can get in.
Oh yeah, dont forget to add a password to your router settings so that if someone gets on your connection, they cant screw with your router.
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From: soopasoak dat hoe.
Originally Posted by exceltoexcel,Dec 15 2004, 10:50 AM
If you've lost the password just hold the reset button down for 10 seconds usually that reset the default password to blank and the user name to admin. thi might vary from router to router but so far it worked for us robotics and d-link