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"Gordon" <gordonlr@DELETEswbell.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 15:30:35 -0400, Agent777
> <Agent777@no-no-na.net> wrote:
>
> >This guy seems to think it is OK to "poach" your neighbor's signal.
> >
> >http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1842378,00.asp
> >
> >The Right Analogy for Wireless Signal Spill
> >ARTICLE DATE: 08.01.05
> >By John C. Dvorak
> >
> >We're starting to see more and more articles in local newspapers with
> >various slants on the fact that people are routinely poaching the
> >spillover signals coming from unprotected Wi-Fi networks. Some
> >researchers indicate that as many as two-thirds of Wi-Fi signals in the
> >U.S. are not secured by WEP or any sort of encryption or tunneling.
> >
> >Since it doesn't really take much to secure a network, UNFORTUNATELY I
CANNOT AGREE WITH THIS!! WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT MY NETWORK DID NOT HAVE
PROTECTION SET, I CALLED LINKSYS TECH SUPPORT FOR HELP WITH THEIR ROUTER.
THE FIRST GUY HAD ME DO A BUNCH OF THINGS, BUT THEN I COULD NOT ACCESS THE
INTERNET (EMAIL OR INTERNET EXPLORER). HE THEN HAD ME UNINSTALL MY LAPTOP
NETWORK CARD SOFTWARE AND THEN INSTALL IT AGAIN. AGAIN NO INTERNET
CONNECTION. SO, I CALLED TECH SUPPORT AGAIN AND THEY HAD ME DO A BUNCH OF
THINGS, BUT THIS TIME I STARTED GETTING A SEVERAL ERROR MESSAGES (LIKE
WIRELESS-G NOTEBOOK ADAPTER WLAN MONITOR 10038 SOCKET OPERATION ON NON
SOCKET) THE TECH THEN SAID THAT THIS WAS A WINDOWS PROBLEM AND I SHOULD
CONTACT MICROSOFT TECH SUPPORT. NOW FRUSTRATED, INSTEAD OF DOING THIS, I
DID A SYSTEM RESTORE WITH WINDOWS ME OPERATING SYSTEM AND THEN WAS ABLE TO
CONNECT TO THE INTERNET. I STILL DO NOT HAVE PROTECTION ON THE ROUTER, BUT
I AM AFRAID TO CONTRACT LINKSYS TECH SUPPORT, SINCE THEY ARE NOT MUCH HELP
AND I CAN HARDLY UNDERSTAND THEM SINCE THEY TALK TOO FAST.

you can assume
> >that people do not mind you taking their Wi-Fi signals to do your
> >e-mail.
What people probably would not appreciate would be you loading
> >up on porn or making terrorist threats on their dime with their IP
> >address. What to do?
> >
> I wonder how many of these unsecured home networks are the result
> of a failed attempt to set up WEP or WPA encryption and running
> into insurmountable problems. I have had this kind of problem in
> trying to set up a Linksys WAG54G ADSL Gateway, connecting my
> desktop and two other computers through its router to my phone
> line DSL service.
>
> This setup works very well until I try to set up some form of
> encryption, then it hangs and the two wireless computers are
> unable to hold the connection. With encryption activated, they
> can establish the connection after a reboot, and will work fine
> until they are idled for a while and go into sleep mode. When
> they come out of sleep mode the connection has been dropped and
> can not be re-established, except by re-booting, or keying in the
> pass phrase.
>
> My desktop computer, which is hard wired (Linksys EtherFast
> 10/100 LAN Card LNE100TX ver. 5.1) to the WAG54G ADSL Gateway
> works flawlessly, 24/7. The connection is fast and always ready.
>
> My laptop (Linksys WPC11 Wireless B Notebook Adapter) and my
> wife's kitchen computer (Linksys WMP54G v4 Wireless G PCI
> adapter) work fine if I do not set up any encryption protection.
> But, I can not get either of them to stay on-line if I activate
> any form of encryption. They work fine until they are allowed to
> go into sleep mode. Then, when they are brought out of sleep mode
> the connection will be down. They will show that they are
> connected to the Gateway with a very good signal strength, but
> the internet can not be found.
>
> All computers in this network are running Windows XP with the
> latest upgrades. They have more than ample memory and free disk
> space.