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Re: [IRCA] (OT) Re: Wi-Fi legality
Patrick Martin wrote:
Rick,
I have no clue on who has the wireless. It could be anyone with in a
mile. Too many houses to know for sure. If I ever find out and they
don't have issues, I will offer to pay half of it easily. It is well
worth $25 a month to me.
I don't recall exactly what you wrote, but was this on a laptop Patrick
that you were using the WiFi? Might be worth driving around with one of
the WiFi auditing programs running. There are a variety of them out
there and they will act like WiFi radar and let you know when you get
near to the signal.
There are also key chain sized WiFi detectors but they don't have the
same range.
I guess if it were me and I had an open AP and someone knocked on the
door and asked if I'd be willing to split the cost and I was not
knowledgeable on security enough to know I was open and vulnerable or
didn't care, I wouldn't have a problem. You could for sure lock down the
AP for them (and you).
There are some really good (and dirt cheap, essentially free) ways to
lock down a wireless AP and isolate the wireless and LAN and WAN sides
of the Internet feed. If you get that far I can brief you offline. It's
simple to setup, easy to maintain, works well with any app you need, and
really secure. That's important these days and not just because of caps.
One of the locations I have here has a 2 mile WiFi link running between
transparent bridges and has been 100% reliable for years. You have
essentially all of the features of a real network available on either
end of the link, multiple PC's additional wireless links on other
channels using second APs on either end, it's secure and isolates the
various network subnets, etc. Lots you can do once you have the basic
infrastructure in place. Simple to setup too.
So don't give up hope of a decent fast network setup.
Rick Kunath
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