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I was watching TV the other night and saw and ad for Roadrunner High Speed Internet for Rochester, NY. It was being advertised at a low low price of $19.95 US for the first 3 months or so for broadband connection. I snickered at this as I'm paying $9.95 CDN for the first 3 months and then $29.95 for the next 5 months on a student contract plan for ADSL.
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Okay, I am beginning to get confused and angry.
For some reason, the Belkin network keeps connecting for a second and then disconnecting, and then connecting again for a second and then disconnecting, and so on and so on. But now a Linksys unsecured wireless network has appeared, and even though it's a weak signal, I can connect to it.
I refuse to belive that it belongs to one of my neighbours, and it's strange that it has appeared at the exact same time as the Belkin connection has started to play up. Doing the speed test on ZDNet gives me a speed of 568 kbps, which is close enough to the correct speed of 750 kbps (considering that other people are using the network) that I think it could be the same one, somehow unsecured and with a different name.
The network card is a Ralink RT2500 wireless PCI card, by the way.
Any ideas? Anyone?
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1. If it's a Linksys wireless, then it's either a cheap bastard or someone who doesn't know any better. I used to work with what was the largest wireless infrastructure in the country ('cause we were cheap bastards who couldn't afford a bunch of Cat-5) and the Linksys cards (and those which used the same chipset) licked donkey balls.
2. Wardriving? First I've heard of it. Here, it was called "drive-by hacking". But, like I indicated, my info is a little dated.
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"...it's strange that it has appeared at the exact same time as the Belkin connection has started to play up."
Not really. If your neighbours went wireless and the signals broadcasted by their AP are powerful enough, they can generate interference with your own AP's transmissions if both are on the same frequency (though that's pretty unlikely with OFDM and only two overlapping devices, but, you know, technology). Have your network settings changed at all since this problem appeared? If not, then round up everyone living within a 50-meter radius of your house and question them harshly.
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Well, I updated the drivers from the Windows Update web-site, but doing a system restore doesn't get rid of the problem.
And an old lady lives on one side of us, and the other side is empty. Plus, y'know, I still think that only 3 people in the whole of Liverpool have wireless broadband. Still, I will ask.
Doesn't explain the Belkin system playing up. I think I'll turn off the encryption stuff, and see if that stops it from acting all crazy like.
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I issue a call to arms and get the cold shoulder. I bet Che never had this problem when he was unionizing the Ewoks.
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quote:Originally posted by Sol System: ("Philly"? Don't make me break out the ((awful and bad)) fake Cockney accent.)
I was being like the Fresh Prince. He has authoritity over you.
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And authority, even.
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Well, who amongst us hasn't been warned about writing on female body parts?
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