I opened my wireless router to see if I could lure in my neighbor

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meltdown75

meltdown75

Lifer
Nov 17, 2004
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LMAO at some of the replies :laugh:

Dude you know you want to just search for *.jpg on her hard drives.
 
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eakers

Lifer
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you wouldn't happen to live in London Ontario would you?
I know a girl there that exclusively uses other peoples wireless networks...
 
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jagec

Lifer
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Originally posted by: ZeroEffect
i've had my XP computer jump on a neighbor's wireless when booting up,
and ignore mine. Even though the signal strength was like 2%. I was able
to logon to their Linksys router with default password... LOL.
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Yeah, I love how it's considered high crime to access an unsecured network, and yet Windows does it automatically. I can easily see how someone who wasn't very computer literate could be breaking the law and not even knowing about it.
 
theknight571

theknight571

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Reminds me of when my dad bought a new laptop.

I had it here at my house to get it setup, apps loaded, and all data transferred over from his old one.

While I was setting it up I enabled the wireless card just to make sure it works... but I never disabled it. (He still uses dial up... ugh)

One day he calls me and wants to know why when he goes to a site it's alot faster than when my mom goes to a site (from her desktop... which is relatilvey new)

Beats me... so I stop by.

He dials in.. and sure enough everything loads pretty quick... my mom... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

I look around and notice he's attached to a wireless network... and getting a good signal.

He was, unknowingly, attaching to the neighbor's wireless and it was overriding the dial up.

The good part is, I made a few extra bucks adding security to their neoghbors router... bad news is.. no more free "high speed" for my dad.

Note: He wont get cable/dsl/etc. He just doesn't want to pay for it. I try to convince him every so often... but he doesn't listen. lol
 
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TheCanuck

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The haxor is not strong in this one. 75% packet loss means you're going to have a tough time listening to her Ricky Martin tunes.

But if you want to see what shares are available on a Windows machine, just go to start --> run --> \\192.168.1.67\ and it will show the shares.

 
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Anghang

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there are better ways to get into her drive than by luring her into your wireless router
 
MmmSkyscraper

MmmSkyscraper

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Originally posted by: michaels
It shows she is online right now in my router, yet her pc doesn't show up in the network in Vista Home Premium. What am i doing wrong?
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You fail at it. It is being Lawnmower Man.
 
SoulAssassin

SoulAssassin

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Originally posted by: ZeroEffect
i've had my XP computer jump on a neighbor's wireless when booting up,
and ignore mine. Even though the signal strength was like 2%. I was able
to logon to their Linksys router with default password... LOL.
Click to expand...

Same thing happened to me. I changed the router so they can't get online every day between 6:45 and 7pm and 8:15 to 8:30. That's gotta be frustrating as hell for them. :)
 
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