On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Tracy R Reed wrote:
Richard Reynolds wrote:
"hello my name is frank and I am setting up my wireless network and i am
trying to make sure my network wont accidentally interact with yours may i
ask if you have a wireless modem, and if so would you know what channel its
on, how about the brand name and model"
Now you are making some other poor guy do a lot of work to track down the
owner of the wireless AP. Some guy who most likely doesn't know a thing about
AP's.
IF they didnt know then they didnt answer, but most just knew, I was asking
what they owned.
Now who is imposing? Just secure your WAP. If you are smart enough to
set it up you are smart enough to secure it.
I wasnt worried about security or interaction, my private AP is locked down my
public is not, it provides a nice webpage where you can accept my almost a joke
terms(dont blame me if it stops working, no speed guarantee and lists my phone
number) and use it free reaches over a mile in one direction about 300' in the
other not sure why but my guess is the hill and some power lines probibly mess
with the transmition plus the antenna is on a pole with several other antenna's
some of which significantly overpower WiFi.
And if some stranger comes asking me the details of my corporate internal
network I agree with Stewart: We don't run any wireless here.
corporate info is never shared, and never public!!! Wanna know about work
networking get a warrant. but Yea I did ask a few businesses, several around me
intrestingly enough had WiFi setups, again no one refuesed to answer.. most
either didnt know what I was asking or didnt claim to own one, and yes I used
one of the keychain WiFi detecters.
It was a fun excersize done for nothing more than my own
education/intertainment.
Richard Reynolds
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