Community weekly poll: Using someone else's wireless network to access the Internet
- 3/30/06 11:07 AM
Using someone else's wireless network to access the Interne
by jmd630 - 3/31/06 11:17 AM In reply to: Using someone else's wireless network to access the Internet by Marc Bennett
Yes just to try it out,it worked as good as my PC
i'm lucky
by Larry.T - 3/31/06 11:29 AM In reply to: Using someone else's wireless network to access the Internet by Marc Bennett
I live in an apartment building that gives us free Wi-Fi.
Our whole downtown is a free hotspot.
by dawnjerrene - 4/1/06 2:16 AM In reply to: i'm lucky by Larry.TWhere exactly is it illegal to use a wi-fi connection not paid for directly by yourself? I am just amazed at the thick-headedness of the entire idea. The entire downtown of Spokane, WA, is a hotspot. I mean, come on! If Spokane can afford to set that up, nobody has a valid argument of "I paid for that particular airwave". 99% of the hotels/motels in town have free wi-fi, too. I just saw one place tonight advertising free wi-fi - it's a lubrication garage, for goodness' sakes! If this activity is illegal anywhere in America it is for once reason only: MONEY. It is amazing and disgusting the lengths to which a municipality will stoop in it's efforts to divest citizens of their hard-earned cash. So, I guess you all had better move on up here, bring your laptops with you, and learn to love the Gonzaga Bulldogs every March, eh? 
Our whole downtown is a free hotspot.
by stevens_jeff - 4/1/06 7:22 AM In reply to: Our whole downtown is a free hotspot. by dawnjerrenewhere I come from they are called the Gagzaga's.
okay, I was only joking.
once in a blue moon
by roadiebob - 3/31/06 11:40 AM In reply to: Using someone else's wireless network to access the Internet by Marc Bennett
2 or 3 times. When I am checking to make sure port forwarding is working. I need an to be coming in from an outside source. I live in an apartment complex and have my choice of 6 wireless nodes, 3 secure, 3 not.
Only when I was desperate
by joe704 - 3/31/06 12:14 PM In reply to: Using someone else's wireless network to access the Internet by Marc Bennett
And only long enough to verify that connectivity problems with my daughter's home network were external to her PC
(specifically, she had a flaky router). Security and ethical qualms prevent me from doing so, otherwise.
All The Time
by heundorothy - 3/31/06 1:11 PM In reply to: Using someone else's wireless network to access the Internet by Marc Bennett
If they haven't gone to the trouble to secure their wireless network, my consensus is that they're leaving it open to share with others. If they don't want others on it, then secure it so they can't get on.
Using someone else's wireless connection
by ironhead3fan - 3/31/06 1:13 PM In reply to: Using someone else's wireless network to access the Internet by Marc Bennett
If anyone here has traveled in the last year and stayed at a hotel, you probably had wireless internet somewhere along the line. I have also done it to show customers how vunerable they were by not having their wireless network secured. As long as you are properly protected, I see no problem with using someone else's wireless network, such as a wireless hotspot. That is what it is for. Now as far as just sapping off of someone just to avoid paying for your own, that is wrong.
I am a learner /Wana-be Network Admin Guy
by colin j moodie - 3/31/06 2:15 PM In reply to: Using someone else's wireless network to access the Internet by Marc Bennett
I think hacking a secure wirewless network takes time, effort and skill, but it is plain wrong and stealing!
I think enjoying a free ride on an unsecure wireless network is fine! Because if the owner could not be bothered to secure it! That is just plain stupid! and any one able to use it should! because this can only help the owner pose questions about a slow connection and help him/her learn.
Simple question, simple answer!
Kindest.
A wana-be Network Admin Guy
I agree
by - 4/1/06 4:42 AM In reply to: I am a learner /Wana-be Network Admin Guy by colin j moodieIn principal, I totally agree. (But read the above posts about how it's illegal in some places anyway. ;))
Re: Ever used someone else's wireless network to access ?
by tedberndt - 3/31/06 3:18 PM In reply to: Using someone else's wireless network to access the Internet by Marc Bennett
As far as I'm concerned that's tatamount to using someone elses' underwear whether or not they happen to be in it at the time that I want to use it. Free died last week.
Occasionally
by r_rayjr - 4/1/06 3:26 AM In reply to: Using someone else's wireless network to access the Internet by Marc Bennett
I would have to say that anyone that said no, would be lying. Because of how this is worded, everyone has used someone else's wireless network to access the Internet. I say this because if you have gone to any of the free wireless places that offer free Wireless internet, you were using someone elses wireless network.
Like here in the Omaha area there is Fuddruckers, they and many other place have free wireless access. Just like some Schools and colleges have free wireless internet access.
accessing someone else's wireless internet
by David Parsons - 4/1/06 7:18 AM In reply to: Using someone else's wireless network to access the Internet by Marc Bennett
access was granted by the owner , although they did not think I would be able to.
Regards,
David Parsons
When folks don't enable their WEP WAP or whatever, why not?
by gumbawakka - 4/2/06 10:23 AM In reply to: Using someone else's wireless network to access the Internet by Marc Bennett
Hey i just was in the Tampa airport where internet is free. FREE! Hey what a helluva idea! A service. To travelers.
And some whole towns have free internet everywhere.
I'm hoping this idea gets around. It's something which would improve the economy, too.
If folks haven't the brain to enable their encryption on their network, they're simply inviting usage by passing strangers.
I don't do it as a rule, but I've stayed in hotels in downtowns of big cities. Some of those hotels didn't have any internet at all. (Stuck in a time warp, I suppose). Finding a 'friendly' open connection, I got on the net and got my email. What did that cost the 'owner' of the line? Zero, zip, nada, nothing!
I also think that the manufacturers of wireless access points ought to enable the security as a default during installation and explain, on-screen, to these novices or know-nothings, the reasons and the risks of having it disabled. The so-called problem would disappear.
Don't blame the desperate traveler. and so called 'war-drivers' are a dying breed anyway. I don't worry about them.
(NT) every time I log on to other networks, I get a bug.
by thunderkong - 4/2/06 3:45 PM In reply to: Using someone else's wireless network to access the Internet by Marc Bennett
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