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David T
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Posted: 7th Nov 2004 06:39
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I'm lying in bed as I type this, god bless wifi. Another thing off my '100 things to do before you die'



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Eric T
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Posted: 7th Nov 2004 06:40
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Ah, the power of Wifi.


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Dazzag
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Posted: 7th Nov 2004 08:11
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Yep. Onto my 2nd wireless laptop now, and you really can't beat it. I'm lying in bed too, plus wireless earphones. Top stuff.

Cheers

I am 99% probably lying in bed right now... so don't blame me for crappy typing
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You lazy... erm, my computer is on a WiFi network with the main computer in my house, although I can't get my card to work in Linux...


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Except for the fact that you are in your own house there are major security issues...although I want it (we have 40ft CAT cables running around the house because wifi wouldn't work....

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Posted: 7th Nov 2004 09:14 Edited at: 7th Nov 2004 09:14
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make sure you lock it down with encryption and a 40bit key in the least

also, set your router NOT to broadcast the ssid


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Posted: 7th Nov 2004 13:21
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pulls up near davids house for free net using a wifi encyption shadow war driving technique and a lombard mac laptop.

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Ali M Oldboy
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Posted: 7th Nov 2004 16:57
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What is wifi?

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David T
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Posted: 7th Nov 2004 17:01
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Quote: "What is wifi?"


h[href]ttp://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&q=define%3Awifi[/href]

Quote: "pulls up near davids house for free net using a wifi encyption shadow war driving technique and a lombard mac laptop."


Hehe, anybody welcome. Free 2mb internet. Plenty to go around

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Posted: 7th Nov 2004 21:05
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What is the name of your street again?

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Posted: 7th Nov 2004 22:32
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Downing Street

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Posted: 7th Nov 2004 22:35
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wifi is good. i usually went outside in the garden during the summer with my lappy coding and chatting.

you lot wont be able to touch my wifi. it's properly secured

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I presonally don't mind sharing my connection. I'm sure the neighbours can get my internet and are probably doing so as I speak

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Posted: 7th Nov 2004 22:39 Edited at: 7th Nov 2004 22:40
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Oh we can touch it, doesn't mean we can use it

Quote: " Downing Street"

*four years later* That's a lie! I got arrested for trying to do that...

EDIT: My neighbours are too stupid to do that, if I had a wifi connection and they did, I would have all their files and they would know nothing (not that I would do that )

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Posted: 7th Nov 2004 23:05 Edited at: 7th Nov 2004 23:11
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WiFi certainly is very useful. I can now get a connection up in my room without having to lay 100ft of cable.

Also if I am somewhere else in the house and I need to do some research off the net, I just grab the nearest working laptop, and bing* there it is.

I do have WEP enabled on my WiFi network, but its amazing how many people do not. Whilst I had the laptop out on the train, I managed to get unprotected connections to two other laptops on the train.


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Quote: " I just grab the nearest working laptop, and bing* there it is."


Even handier if the laptop is always on standby!

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Posted: 7th Nov 2004 23:13
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True, although startup times are very fast if you don't have too much loaded.

My own laptop supports hibernation, so you can leave everything running, and just hit the off switch. Wheras standby uses battery power, hibernation dumps the entire RAM to disc and then switches off completely.


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Posted: 7th Nov 2004 23:25
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Yeah - I often hibernate my computer when I might need to restart quickly from where I left off (well I suppose that's the whole point ).

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I really want it...but my house doesn't support it...there must be lead in the walls or just the engineer is an idiot...

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Posted: 8th Nov 2004 05:16
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My house is 180 years old and has the thickest walls in the business, and it works here

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meh, my house is about 90 years old but the testy-meter thing didnt work...

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Posted: 8th Nov 2004 06:43
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We didn't get any engineer round - just bought hte router

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 8th Nov 2004 07:20
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I use WIFI.. But mine keeps disconnecting. Its a 54Mb one and I am currently connected at 36, tho it sometimes dips down to 18 and once hit 5.5!!

I have Linksys all around (Linksys 54G Router, Linksys WPM54G PCI Cards and a Linksys PCMCIA card for the family laptop).

I also have the problem that linux cannot use my wifi.. Piddling annoying really!! Lol

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My social studies teacher last year got himself hooked up with the Linksys 54G and the thing where you stream movies/music from your laptop to TV. He showed me some pictures of it, dame that was cool.

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@ N30F15H:
A wifi range extender may help. No connection to computer, just plug it into a power outlet and it re-broadcasts signal.

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=wifi+extender&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=ff&oi=froogler

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