[Gllug] Wireless cards -PC world

[Jake Jellinek]

Come within half a mile (or so) of my house, use DHCP and you'll be 
broadband surfing without any need to authenticate. Sniff all my clear text 
traffic if you like.

Noone in the area seems to have discovered this yet though, been running it 
like this for about a year, never had a single unexpected DHCP request (or 
sign of unusual network activity).

I wonder how many other people are doing similar things around London. Not 
that there's anything of particular interest within half a mile of my 
house. I keep meaning to go to the local cafe with a laptop though and see 
if it actually works.

I saw these wireless cards at Brentford too, but figured even half price at 
PC World is usually more expensive than you can find mail order somewhere, 
and since I had no immediate need for more cards...still I'll probably 
regret it later. I liked the look of the USB option too.

Jake.


--On 01 January 2002 18:29 +0000 Richard Cohen <richard at vmlinuz.org> wrote:

> [cut'n'pasted from the archive]
>
> On Monday 31st Dec, mallum said:
>
>> The sitecom ones right ? I got one from slough branch for fifty quid.
>
> Heh - I just picked one up for £38.50 from Brent Cross PC World.  £55 base
> price, with a 30% discount because it was a return.
>
> All I have to do now is work out what to do with it... I don't really need
> it, but I didn't want to pass up on the price.  Particularly since I was
> in PC World to buy myself a hub - I decided that 10Mbps was too slow for
> home :-)
>
>> There prismII based and seem ok, though theres a firmware update on
>> the sitecom site Id like to try as I couldn't get it to work in Master
>> mode with the host AP prism2 drivers...
>>
>>   -- mallum
>
> Cheers
> Richard
>
>> on Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 07:45:51PM +0000, John Hearns wrote:
>> > I was in the PC World in Finnieston, Glasgow today.
>> > They are selling cheap wireless cards in their sale -
>> > 55 quid for PCMCIA, 65 for USB, 25 for PCI to PCMCIA
>> > adapter.
>> > Can't remember the brand.
>> >
>> > The Finnieston store was sold out of PCMCIA sadly.
>> >
>> > John H.
>
>
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