[Chester LUG] WiFi Terror

[Les Pritchard]

Would be interesting to see how much information you'd see if someone did
connect.

On 13 July 2011 22:43, Bryn Salisbury <bryn.salisbury at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd been through the logs on the router when I noticed that FON was
> enabled. They suggested that noone had connected to it.
>
> B
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> On 13 Jul 2011, at 22:12, Sebastian Arcus wrote:
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> > On 13/07/11 20:37, Les Pritchard wrote:
> >> Oh don't get me wrong, I will always move people (normally willingly
> >> once I've explained the dangers!) to WPA2. I had one person tell me
> >> someone had complained that their Windows 98 system wouldn't connect.
> >> Think we know the answer to that one!
> >>
> >> As for BT....yes what can we say! I've not done any testing of a BT
> >> connection, would someone using BT Fon take bandwidth from the owner of
> >> the connection? Or do they reserve a permanent percentage for them at
> >> all times? In that case you're not getting the full potential from your
> >> connection.
> >
> > Yes - I agree. Either temporarely, or permanently - it is using what
> should be my bandwidth and my connection. It's not like BT are giving some
> sort of discount on their connections because they are borrowing said
> bandwidth/connection share from their customers. Quite the opposite, really,
> if you are to compare their prices with the competition. And the free wifi
> comes under BTOpenZone, BTFon and one more branding which is not coming to
> me right now.
> >
> > I take deep satisfaction in replacing the BT branded routers with off the
> shelf ones (when they break or there is any other compelling reason) and
> always imagine there is a little guy deep down in the BT corporate belly
> jumping up and down furiously and frantically shaking fists in the air
> because they lost one more of their routers. Well, at least it's the sort of
> stuff that makes me feel better :D
> >
> > Sebastian
> >
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