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Wireless Internet while Cruising
Larry wrote:
Everyone should also download Network Stumbler from: http://www.stumbler.net/ Download and install like any other freeware/beggarware. Run Net Stumbler on your laptop with its wifi radio on and it will LOG and IDENTIFY every wifi broadcast it encounters. If you plug a GPS into the laptop, one of those little USB GPS receivers works great, Net Stumbler will log the lat/long of each wifi hotspot it encounters with each entry. If GPS info is available, it also interfaces with Google Maps like a chart plotter to plot all the entries in its database it found, so you can print out a map and keep it for favorite hotspots. I don't use this function, much. I just run Net Stumbler and pick out the "target" hotspot in realtime for access. Net Stumbler works much better than what XP comes with to find those elusive open systems to use. Of course, it doesn't log onto each one of them, so you may still encounter and password webpage logon to an open hotspot and have to go begging/paying/spamming for access to it. My favorite hotspots across any area are "Linksys" and "default", a wireless router noone ever bothered to look at the setup webpage of...(c; At Riverbend on the Ashley River you'll find the open hotspot SSID W4CSC hooked to serious bandwidth from 50' up a tree with service up and down the river for about a mile. Help yourself. Everyone who has bandwidth needs to SHARE that bandwidth access with all the others....like mine. Thanks. Those that think if you connect to my open system as "stealing" in some way, shouldn't. It's not illegal or immoral. One guy even beat a rap the cops brought tracking his downloading habits. Snoopercop didn't like the porn webpages accessed from his system. I'm sure it was him that did the access, but because his wifi was wide open, his attorney pointed out to the court it could have been anyone in a wide radius around his apartment complex. As all Snoopercop had was his IP of his router...case dismissed...(c; Mark one for personal freedoms. thanks for the info Larry about net stumbler. Brian |
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