Wednesday, October 27, 2004

wireless

In my previous life (the one where I lived 6 blocks from Jeb Bush) I was a thief. I stole from my neighbor. How awful...no, how unneighborly. I surfed the net on their wireless. I stole their waves. I admit it.

I didn't download, nor did I listen to net-radio. That would have been downright rude. I'm an ethical WIFI thief. My new neighbor has a password protected WIFI hub. I wonder if he/she had some nasty neighbor sucking the speed out of their last connection.


89 comments:

Greg Elmer said...

I feel better already. Now, how can I hack into my new neighbors network...

Chris said...

They may not have paid for the air, but they pay for the connection to the internet. Wireless networks make no noise, causes no interference, apart from an unexpected line in a network selection dialog box.

I also don't think the neighbours are personally responsible for alienating the airwaves from you just by plugging their frigging Linksys box into the wall.

They're just stupid for not following the instructions and turning on WEP.

I do think it would be much better for the world if the world had wireless internet access guaranteed as a matter of public policy.

So Greg, do you have WEP turned on on your network?

cmkl

Greg Elmer said...

I haven't even named my hub yet, forget about WEP. I've periodically named my hard drives over the years. My hard drive in Florida was 'Jeb', in Boston it was'JC' (I was at a Jesuit uni.), in Pittsburgh it was 'rust', in grad school it was 'alter-ego'....

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I haven't even named my hub yet, forget about WEP. I've periodically named my hard drives over the years. My hard drive in Florida was 'Jeb', in Boston it was'JC' (I was at a Jesuit uni.), in Pittsburgh it was 'rust', in grad school it was 'alter-ego'....

Chris said...

Well, then you should feel totally guilt free about stealing your ex-neighbour's bandwidth, because now someone else will do it to you. So you're practicing Wifi karma. I hope your Wifi thief is as ethical as you.

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