Sitting out on the roof...

[ffutures]

...and idly switching on MacStumbler, I can detect three wireless networks, none of them in this house and all of them reasonably strong signals; one called Linksys, one called Netgear, and one called Limpopo, the latter presumably renamed by someone who knows a little about security. Although I don't currently plan to try, I'm willing to bet that it's the only one that's encrypted. Needless to say it is not detecting my network, or the one I set up for the flat downstairs, because I know how to RTFM...

I think that this means that in the event the cable to this house goes wrong I will probably be able to get online somehow...

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[autopope.livejournal.com]

Mine's deliberately unencrypted.

Reason: deniability. ("It wasn't me wot downloaded those files guv'nor, I live ten yards up t'road from t'restaurant an' I dunno nuthink 'bout this security lark neither.")

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Fairy nuff...

[ex-dogmeat720.livejournal.com]

I've spent the last hour trying to sort out wireless on my ADSL router by disabling the DHCP on my wireless router and connecting through that. I'm connecting fine via a network cable, but I get bugger all wirelessly. Gah. Annoyance. Don't talk to me about wireless.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Okay, I won't...

[uk-lemming.livejournal.com]

Try making sure that wireless is on on the router, and that it is switched to allow either both standards (b/g) or the one of the card you are trying to connect with.

[parakkum.livejournal.com]

For a while, the guest network here at work (which is encrypted anyway) was called "No network found."

This works surprisingly well.

I was in Detroit for the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology meeting last month, and it was fascinating watching wireless networks spring up as more people checked into the hotel. Also curious was the fact that I couldn't detect the conference's open wireless network if I walked from the central conference areas to the front lobby, but could detect it twenty floors above its source, in my room.

I imagine this has a lot to do with where the rebar is in the building.

At any given time in my place or my girlfriend's, you can expect to pick up anywhere from two to six wireless networks, with maybe a third to half of them unencrypted. We keep ours encrypted largely to keep people from blowing our bandwidth.