Wireless LAN

[DoubleBlade]

Is it an offence to "steal" my neighbour's wireless router signal if I so happen to be in within range of his router?

I heard if your neighbour finds out that you are stealing his router signal and complains to the police , you could get fined for it


Is this true?

Will my neighbour be able to find out that someone else is using his router signal?

 

[Newbie]

LOL yes i think u will get fined. Haha

Dont cap people's connection lah. Use your own one

 

[DoubleBlade]

I don't have a wireless router and sometimes I feel so tempted to surf the net in the comfort of my room using my notebook....

 

[wangdexian]

I honestly don't think he is stupid enough to not set a password to access the router. :roll:

 

[nitrovo]

I guess that should be ok hahaha..not really but yeah, just hide your pc so it cant be seen by your neighbour..not sure how but there are ways where you can make your PC 'invisible" to them

 

[DoubleBlade]

I honestly don't think he is stupid enough to not set a password to access the router. :roll:

haha wanna bet?

my wireless receiver detected 3 different signals from 3 different router models in one night!!!! 8)

 

[dhalif]

if he doesn't know how to prevent people from accessing his bandwith, he will not know how to see your computer.. hahahahha

 

[wangdexian]

my wireless receiver detected 3 different signals from 3 different router models in one night!!!! 8)

But the thing is, did you connect onto them?

 

[redjackal]

some of them didnt have password protected.
i've detected about 1/2 of those with and without password.
but i suggest not to use the wireless signal. cause my friend connect into their network and the owner uploaded some virus in or somethingl ike that...cause in a network connection you can access other users system

just get ur own wireless connection lah =X
u see now all starhub and singnet plans all comes with a wireless man..and the price is almost the same as what u're paying now.
currently i'm using singnet. it's a modem/router i plug the modem to my desktop and the notebook will use the router wireless connection. 2 in 1.

 

[DoorKeeper]

I have heard of quite a few people doing that and getting away (for now). I guess it is just not a long term solution.

 

[nitrovo]

A neighbour was in my network, well I think it was a neighbour I wasn't sure who it was and I was printing stuff from his printer :twisted:

 

[DoorKeeper]

A neighbour was in my network, well I think it was a neighbour I wasn't sure who it was and I was printing stuff from his printer :twisted:

And he can print to your printer as well. Nice wireless faxing arrangement ! :idea:

 

[nitrovo]

hahaha nah becuase he couldnt access my pc and I could oly access his shared docs and not his other shared folders

 

[stars]

LOL ...

hmmz ... i came across a statistic once that nearly 70% of all wireless networks are unsecured in singapore... i got me own little wireless network at home and i use MAC screening/filter --> best form of protection

truth is ... before i secured it got some dude keep stealing my signal and my bandwith , download alot of crap and eat into my internet speeds... in aint fair ..

 

[pooo]

I honestly don't think he is stupid enough to not set a password to access the router. :roll:

You'd be really surprised, a lot of people don't. I only started noticing when i go down to coffeeshops with friends to work on projects, and so happens most of the time you'd be able to get a signal and get online.

 

[DoubleBlade]

but it's not like your PC's IP address will appear on your neighbour's PC if both of you so happen to be sharing the same bandwidth at the same time right?

 

[stars]

IP has absolutely no relation to bandwith.

but multiple users using a single connection slows it down.

imagine a highway with one car and a highway with 100 cars. you get the picture

 

[stillwater]

many lecturers teaching abt bandwidth like to use pipe to illustrate... the bigger the pipe, the more water can flow thru, wif respect to the same time.

 

[DoubleBlade]

but what about history and cookies? does it have any relation to using other people's bandwidth?

suppose if i surf the web using someone else bandwidth , will the fella be able to track the websites i've been to by looking at the internet history or cookies?

 

[stars]

yea...

if i m not mistaken , that illustration is used to the capacity. e.g like the fibreoptics can transmit at lets say 10mbps. if u have 10 users hogging the pipeline , it ll be 1 mbp for each one. if u have a 100 users, it will be 0.1. relative capacity, assuming that all capacity is used up

hmmz