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ok can you explain to me how you connect to a hotspot that your net stumbler
detects? I have tried using net stumbler on my laptop in the states and it
shows me hotspots but I never seem to be able to log onto any of them so
what's the solution?
Does net stumbler allow you to configure it so it will connect for you or is
their something you need to do to be able to log onto one of the hotspots?
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There is also a growing number of unsecured APs sprouting up all over
the islands. Last week in a 2 mile drive along Ridge Road in Tortola
my Net Stumbler discovered over 50 unsecured APs with usable signal.
Seems like every villa is installing an access point and just leaving
them up even when the place is vacant. Not saying you should
constantly piggyback on an AP uninvited but if you really need to make
a call it is possible almost anywhere.



While I'm very proud of all of you who feel guilty in some way of using
someone else's wifi, I don't think you need be. If they don't want you
to use it, they simply WEP protect it, which is like locking your house
to keep the public from using your bathroom. The serious hacker is going
to use your WEP-protected wifi, anyway, and that's where to draw the
line.

My wifi is open to the public. Many of the boys in the barracks at CAFB
are using my bandwidth because I put the wifi hotspot 50' up the tree
outside in an inverted plastic bucket to increase range with a high-
powered hotspot and high gain, space diversity antennas. They, in turn,
have built Pringle's can 2400 Mhz antennas and stuck them on the roof.
If I need my bandwidth I simply unplug that open router from the main
router while I need it. If there's an attack, and there has been, I
leave it offline for a week or two until the attacker gives up.

Anyone leaving an open wifi port is, as far as I know, leaving his wifi
as an open hotspot, a public service to the rest of us. You should leave
yours open so anyone needing bandwidth can get it within a half block of
your house, unless it becomes a bandwidth hog from someone abusing your
good deed. If everyone did this, everyone with wifi would benefit as
there would be so much bandwidth across a city there would be no need of
companies selling bandwidth, sucking the blood of all of us. How stupid
it is we all live like hermits protecting our turf with sticks.

As a side benefit of the open wifi hotspot, government bureaucrats hell
bent on tracking every byte from you to anywhere now have a problem.
"Your honor, a direct connection from this person's IP address to
timbucktoo.com was noted by our government spy computers many times over
the last 12 months."....the prosecuting bureaucrat explains with that
goddamned smirk on his face. "Ladies and Gentlemen of the JURY, Mr.
Soandso has, as a public service, an open wifi hotspot accessable by
anyone who is within radio range of his home. It could have been anyone
connecting to his free hotspot that connected his IP to timbucktoo.com,
so what the government bureaucrats have recorded in their snooping means
nothing." Would you convict him? Of course not...which is why
government snoopers are terrified of open wifi hotspots rendering their
snooping useless to prosecute.....(c; You become an internet provider,
which puts you under the same protection laws as Comcast and Bell$outh,
unresponsible for what flows through your system you're providing free.

It's why the FCC doesn't allow you to have a 25 watt wifi router with a 5
mile range.....(c; It's about "control", same as always.

Using anyone's open wifi hotspot is NOT a sin-of-the-flesh.....Help
yourself. Use mine SSID W4CSC



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"Chi Chi" wrote in
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ok can you explain to me how you connect to a hotspot that your net
stumbler detects? I have tried using net stumbler on my laptop in the
states and it shows me hotspots but I never seem to be able to log
onto any of them so what's the solution?
Does net stumbler allow you to configure it so it will connect for you
or is their something you need to do to be able to log onto one of the
hotspots?


Open your Windoze networking icon and doubleclick on the one you want on
the list? Click on the wireless network Icon in the lower right panel and
it opens. All the networks it can hear, at the moment, are in the list.
This is part of XP, not Netstumbler. Once XP knows you want to connect to
this hotspot, it will connect automatically next time. Just pick AWAY when
it asks you what kind of connection this is. Netstumbler is a
scanner/logger. I don't think it will connect for you, but I may be wrong.

Larry
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I've run out of Halloween candy FOUR TIMES SO FAR!

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That's right Net Stumbler just searches out APs and tells you the signal
strength. Windoz does the connecting on the built in wifi adapter and
possibly a third party utility for an external device like my EUB-362.

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On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:34:32 +0000, Chi Chi wrote:

since when is linux free? I have tried downloading the free linux out there
but never have been successful the download always fails for some reason

Ubuntu will send you a free CD:

http://tinyurl.com/mprrm

Matt O.

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Thanks for the info
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:34:32 +0000, Chi Chi wrote:

since when is linux free? I have tried downloading the free linux out
there
but never have been successful the download always fails for some reason

Ubuntu will send you a free CD:

http://tinyurl.com/mprrm

Matt O.

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Chi Chi wrote:
I have tried downloading Linux off the net but every time the download fails
how can I go about getting linux for free?

Well, if you are downloading Linux on a very slow line, or using a very
slow computer, or your connection is not stable then the problem is the
hardware itself. If all of that is working fine, then you might want
to have your RAM checked as downloads of large data tend to really
exercise RAM and even one sporadically failing bit out of 128,000,000
would cause the download to fail.

So, as a possible alternative, find someone with a high speed connection
and good computer that has some experience with it and have them
download the "DVD" version of Linux. You can download the 4 CDROMs
instead but I have found that it is so much easier to have everything on
one disk - providing your machine as a DVD reader, which it really should.

I prefer the Redhat Fedora Core4 (or the latest Core5 release) but there
are several different ones mentioned, and quite frankly I think they are
all quite good. Burn this onto a DVD as an ISO image. Read the various
websites mentioned earlier about doing this, plus Redhat's website
contains step by step instructions on doing this.

Put the DVD into your machine, reboot it, choose the default on most
everything it asks and it should fully install the OS within 45 minutes.

The only other issue I would suggest being careful about is "dual boot"
setup. Windows is designed to not allow this configuration (Billy Gates
doesn't like anyone using any product but the overpriced ones he sells
you himself) so you need to sort of trick the system when setting this
up. I prefer to just eliminate Windoze entirely.

Cheers,

Robb

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In article ,
Chi Chi wrote:
since when is linux free? I have tried downloading the free linux out there
but never have been successful the download always fails for some reason

Try Ubuntu:

http://www.ubuntu.com/

They will mail you installation media for free.

ron
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thanks got it ordered

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In article ,
Chi Chi wrote:
since when is linux free? I have tried downloading the free linux out
there
but never have been successful the download always fails for some reason

Try Ubuntu:

http://www.ubuntu.com/

They will mail you installation media for free.

ron
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Usenet invented "no controlling legal authority."