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Title: They'll never piggyback on your wireless again
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on August 11, 2006, 12:08:24 am: http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html

:laugh2:

mrC
Title: Re: They'll never piggyback on your wireless again
Post by: AtomSmasher on August 11, 2006, 12:29:31 am: thats brilliant.
Title: Re: They'll never piggyback on your wireless again
Post by: ChadTower on August 11, 2006, 08:34:36 am: It is... I used the decidedly less glamorous approach when I caught someone stealing my wireless... I turned it off and hardwired my house with cat6.
Title: Re: They'll never piggyback on your wireless again
Post by: MYX on August 11, 2006, 09:21:24 am: Is there something you can look at to see who is using your wireless?
Title: Re: They'll never piggyback on your wireless again
Post by: Chris on August 11, 2006, 09:26:27 am: Most wireless routers have a status page that shows all connected clients.
Title: Re: They'll never piggyback on your wireless again
Post by: JoeJoe97 on August 11, 2006, 10:37:45 am: On a related note, I live in a high rise condo in Milwaukee. There are a ton of hotspots. I left mine wide open, in the spirit of sharing.

The other night I was having bad problems with speed. My connection was up and down as well. I decided to look into it, and I had 12 freeloaders on my WAP. I decided to kick them off go to WPA encryption. Speed and connections are both looking up.
Title: Re: They'll never piggyback on your wireless again
Post by: ChadTower on August 11, 2006, 02:38:33 pm: Look at their IPs, connect to their machines since they're probably also wide open, and wipe them.
Title: Re: They'll never piggyback on your wireless again
Post by: Daniel270 on August 11, 2006, 03:46:00 pm: Quote from: ChadTower on August 11, 2006, 02:38:33 pm

Look at their IPs, connect to their machines since they're probably also wide open, and wipe them.

or, alternately, set up a password they'd never figure out at their Windows Logon
Title: Re: They'll never piggyback on your wireless again
Post by: RayB on August 11, 2006, 04:08:53 pm: now how do you "connect to their machine" ??
Title: Re: They'll never piggyback on your wireless again
Post by: ChadTower on August 11, 2006, 05:56:41 pm: Depends on what they're running, but for the most part, if a windows machine is using your dhcp server you shouldn't have much trouble mounting their hard drive.
Title: Re: They'll never piggyback on your wireless again
Post by: M3talhead on August 11, 2006, 10:05:11 pm: Quote from: ChadTower on August 11, 2006, 05:56:41 pm

Depends on what they're running, but for the most part, if a windows machine is using your dhcp server you shouldn't have much trouble mounting their hard drive.

...mounting and raping it that is...
Title: Re: They'll never piggyback on your wireless again
Post by: ChadTower on August 12, 2006, 03:16:38 pm: That's pretty much the point. You could be really evil and search it for social security numbers and such but really all I'd want to do is punish them for stealing from me, not find something I could use to steal from them.

Well, I'd probably search it for good pr0n too. :laugh2:
Title: Re: They'll never piggyback on your wireless again
Post by: DrewKaree on August 12, 2006, 09:08:18 pm: Quote from: JoeJoe97 on August 11, 2006, 10:37:45 am
On a related note, I live in a high rise condo in Milwaukee. There are a ton of hotspots. I left mine wide open, in the spirit of sharing.

The other night I was having bad problems with speed. My connection was up and down as well. I decided to look into it, and I had 12 freeloaders on my WAP. I decided to kick them off go to WPA encryption. Speed and connections are both looking up.

Damn downtown hippies! I tells ya, ya can't do NOTHIN' nice for those bums! Prolly one of those scummy U-dub punks saving their money for beer they won't share. :angry: