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Is there a resource online where people list open WiFi APs by City / Zip? And such info?

― ¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿ (ex , Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

somewhat related: can anybody recommend a good wireless router? I think mine's gone kaput.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

yes everyone let's please try and make sure jon can access the internet at all times

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

that's really uncalled for.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

ps. Jon I think CNet has a searchable-by-zipcode thing, but it is mostly just pay sites.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

AIrport expresss is good if you wnat the extre=a geegaws of being able to connect your printer and stereo to the router, otherwise any linksys, belkin or 3Com

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

how does Airport connect to your stereo, exactly? Also, my current kaput model is a Belkin, they seem cheap and unreliable.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

it has a headphone jack out

― ¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿ (ex , Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

that's it? a headphone jack only? that seems kinda lame, it'd be better if it was RCA or optic or something, no?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

it is also a digital optical minijack as well as being an analogue minijack. You do have to use iTunes 4.6 (Mac/PC) to make it work though. Printer port is USB.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

weird. I think I'll stick with something else, I can't really see much advantage to the Airport thingy.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

also:

http://www.national-tech.com/images/sdmt-c1755.jpg

― ¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿ (ex , Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

TECHNICAL QUESTION: Does the Airport base station have an IP? a MAC (Media Access Control) address? I'll be living in a place where I have to register (max 2) MAC addresses and I need to save one for using the laptop in the library and the other for a desktop.

― ¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿ (ex , Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah I can do that already just by hooking up the computer to the stereo, if I'm in my room listening to music. There's not really much advantage to playing iTunes party shuffle in another part of the house where I couldn't hear it anyway.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

think it's a bit of a cheek for jon to ask us for help when he spends a lot of hindering us. still:

google cache of warchalking.org. actual site no longer exists but cached page has some useful links (or maybe they are useless link, i didn't check any of them).
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:RLmCey3_qTUJ:www.warchalking.org/story/2003/6/6/103836/1077+warchalking+online&hl=en

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

(koogs: shut the fuck up asshole, but thanks for the link.)

― ¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿ (ex , Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Koogs is not being an asshole. He just doesn't like threads which are suddenly hijacked by 4500x8900 images, like a lot of us. But of course, Jon you don't give a shit. Oh and right, I can turn off images? So I have to mod my internet settings every time I want to read ILX? Thanks.

― a lurker, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

what does that have to do with wifi?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't believe you are a lurker. I don't jack threads except ones that are obviously flagged as being pro-ROFFLE. And I don't appreciate threads being turned into off-topic personal snipe attacks.

― ¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿ (ex , Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

god forbid

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

> 4500x8900

it was closer to 90000x120000

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone has a good memory. Anyway, what are some cool WiFi enabled devices?!?!

― ¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿ (ex , Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.netstumbler.org/ forums

http://www.duntemann.com/wifi/wardrivingfaq.htm War Driving FAQ

http://www.macstumbler.com/screenshot.gif MacStumbler

― ¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿ (ex , Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://binaervarianz.de/projekte/programmieren/kismac/ ah, this can crack WEP on OS X

― ¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿ (ex , Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://binaervarianz.de/projekte/programmieren/kismac/map.png

― ¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿ (ex , Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey Jon, I promise I'm not trying to call you out or anything, but please note that

http://www.national-tech.com/images/sdmt-c1755.jpg

isn't a very good argument re: hstencil's saying he'd rather have RCA or optical than a headphone out.

Difference in sound quality between 1/8" jack and just about anything else is noticable. For that matter, anything that uses a TRS plug to carry both sides of a stereo signal at the same time has some inherent problems.

That said, I want an AirPort Express, dammit.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

(I was being snipey, but yes it does have some sort of digital out)

― ¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿ (ex , Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha... ILX swallowed my fake close tags thinking they were real HTML.

(In the above post, I stuck "[/audiophile rant]" after the paragraph that ended with "inherent problems."

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/

Bah on that little bitch... It uses one 3.5mm jack for analog or optical digital out.

When will Apple come out with the AirPort Express that has dual balanced 1/4" TRS connectors? Wah.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I still want one though.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Tivo will also talk to your computers and play their mp3s over the stereo system connected to your TV.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck Tivo

― ¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿¥¤±²£¢Ð¼æ®ª«¶Þ÷³¹ß½Ø×©§¾¿ (ex , Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I believe that it can do NAT routing so it will only take up one MAC address for the whole network but go and looka at the apple site.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Tivo will also talk to your computers and play their mp3s over the stereo system connected to your TV

Yeah, but only the new TiVo. We have one of the early ones, and Jen signed up back when they were still offering the free lifetime subscription to the service, so we're probably not gonna upgrade until we just HAVE to since upgrading will mean we'll have to start paying for the service.

Sigh.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://wigle.net/

This seems to be AMAZING

― Whiskeytown Littlecock (ex machina), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

womby writes "DVD Jon has just announced that he cracked the encryption in the Apple AirportExpress. 'I've released JustePort, a tool which lets you stream MPEG4 Apple Lossless files to your AirPort Express. The stream is encrypted with AES and the AES key is encrypted with RSA.' No real details of the process employed in cracking the unit but newsworthy none the less."

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Hey Tombot. I now run my AP with a hard WPA password and a PPTP VPN thanks to DD-WRT. I also bumped my xmit power up and it works great. Also installed Xlink Kai to route LAN game traffic to the internet ^_^ :DDDD.

I can VPN in over my cellphone or any open wifi now :D

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Friday, 6 January 2006 00:35 (twenty years ago)

That's cool, we upgraded to ArcSight 3.5 yesterday. And I got a Speed Racer cover for my Nano. We ordered DSL but Verizon is slow so we're still bogarting off a network named "babs".

So you can VPN over other people's bandwidth to use your own bandwidth? You're already using TOR for everything, I thought. I don't get wtf that xlink kai thing is good for, can you actually play crossplatform network games?

I'll buy you a beer for ruining your WHERE USERIP fun. Eventually.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 6 January 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

t/j, what do you think of these?

http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?childpagename=US%2FLayout&packedargs=c%3DL_Product_C2%26cid%3D1119460471050&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper

― terry lennox. (gareth), Friday, 6 January 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Both of you should peruse my for sale listings at amazon. I'm not going to trackback my own thread again, it's still on New Answers, but there is some good rare detroit et al. in there and some Noize as well. I am selling them because I am an old man and have no time for 2 Lone Swordsmen in my life anymore, I have to get my kicks from televised sporting events and news programs.

I have been thinking of getting some kind of network storage for a while and that appears to be excellent, since you can plug whatever you like right into it. If I had the dosh to spare I would totally get one of these (and paint it, or cover it with stickers, immediately).

― TOMBOT, Friday, 6 January 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

i'll have a look at that list, though my limited physical space, and tenuous existence, means i'm trying to stay as mobile as possible. which means no records (er, except for the stouffville grit record from 1971 i just bought for $1.05 even though i dont have a record player with me)

the linksys seems pretty good, i bought mine a week or so ago, so my 200gb lacie is now attached to the wireless router via that, insteaad of to the laptop directly

the crazy thing about this brave new wireless world, is just how many wires you need. under my bed sits my wireless router, the linksys storage thingy, the 200gb lacie, the charger for the laptop, they all need their own power supplies, and thats before you get into charging the mp3 player, the digital camera, the portable speakers...

― terry lennox. (gareth), Friday, 6 January 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

eight months pass...

OK, does anyone have/know someone with a little wifi-finding keyring dongle thing?

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

It'd be cool if it could distinguish WEP/WPA and avoid false positives from other 2.4 Ghz devices.

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

I have one of these. Very handy gadget.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

distinguish WEP/WPA

It does not do this.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

This one does but I need a keychain sized one

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

dudes, anyone down for some warchalking this weekend?

― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

veryu funne

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'm always tempted to put up an NYU-ROAM AP somewhere and run dsniff

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

OK, does anyone have/know someone with a little wifi-finding keyring dongle thing?

Yes. Oddly enough, it's shaped like a PCMCIA card. (Or like an express card.) It gives you internets tubes wherever you may find a cell phone signal.

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

one of my local networks is GAYSEX

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

OK So I had a Linksys WRT54G with DD WRT. I'd like to get an AP with good range, hackability and pre-N support

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 8 October 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

DORK-TASTIC

― Alba, Monday, 8 October 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

dudes, anyone down for some warchalking this weekend?

-- mr. brojangles, Thursday, September 14, 2006 4:15 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

that guy = GOAT

― sanskrit, Monday, 8 October 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

Should I just get a refurb airport express for $80?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 8 October 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

Can I hi-jack this thread and turn into a Wifi newbie support hotline?

― baaderonixx, Monday, 31 March 2008 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

My router works fine, signal is deemed "excellent" and my network cable/box works as well. And yet when I try to establish a connection, nothing happens. I'm thinking it could be a network key problem, but I don't get any error message on that front. Does anyone have any suggestion?

― baaderonixx, Monday, 31 March 2008 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Define "try to establish a connection" ?

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

or you can't reach the router to configure it? (or is it one of those automatic ones?)

― StanM, Monday, 31 March 2008 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

i see my router in the "available networks" and when I connect to it the little "connected" icon appears in the tray but my browser does not detect any connection

― baaderonixx, Monday, 31 March 2008 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

if its one of those routers that comes with the isp it might be fucked. we've had two new ones from bt already.

― Crackle Box, Monday, 31 March 2008 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

XP Vista Mac? Make/Model of router? Cable/ADSL?

Srlrsy computer problem folks make with the information. We are not psychic.

The wireless side can be up and the internet side down, remember those boxes are like 3 devices in one.

You can have perfectly working WiFi hotspot but no internet and vice versa.

Go to the routers config page usually 192.168.0.1, log in and check the DSL/cable modem status.

Also look at the lights on the router some will indicate the status of the modem side see what they are saying.

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 31 March 2008 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

once we have more info more detailed troubleshooting can be done.

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 31 March 2008 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

yes, thanks for all that - i should have been a bit more specific.

This is XP with a US robotics router for a cable connection.

In the config page, router tells me it can't figure out my connection.

― baaderonixx, Monday, 31 March 2008 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

Okay it could be yr ISP or your router is not configured to talk to your cable connection correctly.

Are you posting from a computer connected by this router now?

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 31 March 2008 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

OK, it seems to work now. I managed to reconfigure the router. The weird thing is that Gmail will not load anymore though.

― baaderonixx, Monday, 31 March 2008 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

other websites okay?

― Jarlrmai, Monday, 31 March 2008 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

yep. facebook doesn't work either (ie keeps loading forever). Weird

― baaderonixx, Monday, 31 March 2008 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

One million thumbs up to the Meshforce product line. We have a large house with the modem in a southernmost room and a movie room in an outbuilding about 20 feet from the northeastern corner. I got the 3-meshpoint system which gives total coverage in the house with 2 of the units, letting me put the 3rd in the movie room itself. If you want to cover a large area, I can't recommend this highly enough.

― Miami weisse (WmC), Sunday, 29 December 2019 00:01 (six years ago)

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