Ron <ronclifford@peoplepc.com> wrote in
news:8smo14ljgrs7642iboiobjl7u63n9tbn1m@4ax.com:

> Not sure its legal, but go park in a suburb, and use the SSID "DLink"
> or "Linksys", and there's often someone that set up their WiFi with
> defaults, and no password.
>
>

Y'all can use ours in my neighborhood. My SSID is W4CSC and has been
open for years. The boys in the enlisted barracks at the air force base
have Pringle's Can beams pointed towards my extended range node 50' up
the oak tree in the yard in an inverted bucket to keep it out of the
rain. It uses power-over-Ethernet and runs 200mw across the
spectrum.....

.....I'm showing 6 hooked to it, at the moment, from "somewhere 'round
heah"...(c; Help yourselves.

What I always find hilarious is someone with a 20mw Linksys pouring over
which security lock is best when his little rubber duck antenna can't
make it to the other end of the house. Noone can use it unless they're
standing in the flower bed right outside the computer shack window. Too
funny.

In all the years I've been running an open hotspot with nearly a mile of
range, I've had one "abuser" hell bent on trying to destroy it. I
mentioned it to some of my other "users" and a group of them knocked on
his door to politely ask him to cease and desist. I never even locked
out his MAC. I didn't have to....(c;

Terabytes of bandwidth go unused every microsecond. Bandwidth is a
terrible thing to waste....(c;

(A green tree frog has just stuck himself to the side of my WinXP box and
is making a curious croaking noise that sounds like a caster wheel that
needs some WD-40. I think he's looking for lunch....or his mate.)