C:Amie gets WiFi

Get a case ten, our babies are too valuable to be carelessy toted about. Especially the ones we've waited the longest to get or searched the hardest for. I went crazy and bought 4 bags for carrying portable DVD players. So far they're the best things I could find to carry a larger hpc and accessories.

Walmart has a great Targus camera bag (0092663620705) that is perfect for a 720, extra batteries and external charger and plenty of goodies. It was $10 and is very well padded and stylish. It's also a terrific bag for mini DV camcorders so it does double duty for me.

I think wally left out one essential for wardriving/walking: a pair of cargo pants/shorts (with those nice big pockets that many H/PCs can fit in). C:Amie would probably freeze solid in them, though.

I think wally left out one essential for wardriving/walking: a pair of cargo pants/shorts (with those nice big pockets that many H/PCs can fit in). C:Amie would probably freeze solid in them, though.

Thats nothing!!! Try Wardriving on a train! Don't worry! It won't fail! -2 with non functioning heaters, non-functioning Motors, non-functioning Air-Conditioning, Non-Functioning lighting (so your carriage plunges into darkness) and did I mention non-functioning motors?

Anyway, my laptop (god bless me!) goes virtually everywhere and on my travels (god bless me), the WiFi becomes live when I don't want it to be live!
Anyway, god bless my laptop, it decides, "Hey!! Why not find an access point?", so it does! It finds dozens of the bloody things. There are 2 at Bosham (home networks), about 3 or 4 at the Entrance to Brighton station, 2 more in Havant (One appropiately named "Bugger off"!), South Downs College has a non Functioning WiFi Network (I must yell at the admins about that!).
Oh, did I mention that 377 302/305/312/322/323/332 (I think, there are others, but I havent seen them!) also have open WiFi Networks? SOUTHERN operates the network on Narrow and wideband coverages (in conjunction with t-mobile), although if the train goes off patch, it tends to be narrowband. Its great fun while connected on a train, doing 75mph in the middle of the sussex contryside and you say to everyone, "HEY, I'M TALKING TO YOU ON A TRAIN!!! YEP, IT HAS FREE INTERNET!*"
The other trains that have WiFi is GNER, not sure which ones, because I never used their trains!
The London Terminals have a WiFi network I think, I know Waterloo has one.
Cafe Nero is said to have a WiFi network, I must do some wardriving (sorry! Warriding!) in the middle of Chichester on a Sunday afternoon and get caught up with the Sunday Drivers!
Cycle ride at fridge temprature anyone?

* (sadly, not now, you have to subscribe to their T-Mobile service)

Wow, Wes, you must do alot of wardriving/warriding

Still cool nonetheless. I wonder what the odds are of Amtrak setting up free WiFi here in the States. (Could easily boost ridership.)

Not that much!
Just that my devices does a lot of sniffing, especially when I turn on either with a Wifi card, look for the TM hotspot and find another one outside the train!
My dad likes to do a bit of sniffing from time to time, but I gotta do more, there were 6 hotspots in my street at one time, 3 of them were ours would you believe.
By the way, does anyone get a common one on their laptop, known as "ibm" which is a Peer-To-Peer network? I seem to get one of those bloody connections everywhere I go and it seems to follow me.

Hmm, I've never seen the IBM ad-hoc setup. Since Christmas my predictions are right. I now have roughly double the open APs as before Christmas. Some areas have trebled, some show no increase. But they all indicate a total lack of security for mundane things like banking info and credit cards and whatnot.

Our local TV station runs a minimal spot on securing networks every quarter or so but with no detailed information the EUs are no better off.

One thing we don't have much of is paid wifi spots. The bookstore has such a setup,and I hear the internet cafes have the same. ( Why pay to surf at a cafe when you can freeze in your car?)

All of our larger hotels have wifi but I don't know their protocol. The first time I used a hotel AP many management types were peering out of windows every few seconds for some reason.

I suspect the hotel asks for your MAC when you register. They don't use the MAC as an access control, perhaps just for very loose monitoring.

Our casino is another story. I could sniff all their networks easily early on, and worse still, browse around. Someone in security must have noticed my MAC and they locked everything down. For the life of me I can't detect a single wifi signal anymore even if I'm standing in the middle of 10 employees with wifi Palm/Symbol gear.

Hmm, maybe they went to all A band equipment. I can't locate that stuff.

I relish the day when there are enough open APs to drive from town end to town end. Maybe I'll cancel my internet line at that point. j/k.

Would you believe that there are no new ap's in my area, nada, nil, nothing!

Which is grossly unfair I think (on me)

What the heck? Don't they realize it needs to be plugged into AC before it will work? Wireless AC hasn't been perfected yet.

Chris, your area must be an unusual demographic. It sounds like the early adopters bought their kit and set it up and the rest of your neighbours either don't realize it exists or figure they don't need it.

Wifi's like electricty. Once you have it, you wonder how you did without it. Of course, that's assuming your neighbours have electricity. j/k, your hood looks nice from the photos of the storage facility explosion. But you're a little short on snow

Ahh, that's the problem. Well spotted!

I think you are probably correct, we must be all oddballs in Fields End. There is still only one AP in range of me - just to be sure I had a poke about to find AP's not transmitting SSID's... and there were none.

We do have electricity, one thing we don't have all that much of at the moment is Petrochemicals

2CV: 56 miles / 1 imGal
106: 40 miles / 1 imGal
Land Rover: 8 miles / 1 imGal
Bugatti Veyron: 4 miles / 1 imGal
Hemel Hempstead: 0 miles / 600 million imGal

With Fuel economy like that, it's no wonder we need more wind turbines


All the snow's gone now (the inferno must have melted it away )

Ow, Sounds like such Fun.. Wardriving, that is. But goodluck finding a AP over here on the *backwards* side of Australia. There's no point turning WEP on here, no one uses WiFi.... Bunch of n00bs.