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06-20-2004, 03:42 PM
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|  G4 Titanium And Wireless Networking! A friend of mine came over with his g4 book. I have no idea how this worked, but asd soon as he turned his laptop on, he was connected to the neighbors wireless service. lol No verification needed, just connected. How the heck did that happen? Does their service just not need verification, or does the mac just connect auto without asking? thanks... im wondering if I can do this with my pc lol
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06-21-2004, 06:21 PM
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|  A mac with a wireless card (airport) can and will automatically connect to the nearest, unencrypted signal (I believe it can be set to not auto connect, but I think it autoconnects by default). If there are more than one, itll choose the first it picks up and then will list the others in a menu bar.
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06-22-2004, 03:58 PM
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| Yes, a PC can do that. Basically what I'm drawing from this topic is that your neighbor set up their wireless connection entirely wrong (meaning with a complete lack of security). A properly set up wireless network would have an encrypted network key. |
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06-25-2004, 04:31 PM
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| the hard thing is getting a "linux compatible" networking card to work lol
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06-25-2004, 11:41 PM
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| Unencrypted networks are a HUGE problem. You could go into an apartment or condo building and get five or so networks within range. Chances are you'll be able to connect to three or four of them without ANY key whatsever. I once accidently connected to my neighbors network (and I didn't notice at the time). I noticed that day when I went into the network folder and realized that the computer on the network were not the computers in my house. I went into one of them, and the entire C:/ root directory was shared (also a very bad idea, whether encrypted or not). At that point I went and set up WEP for them. The lesson: Use WEP! And no, this isn't unique to the Powerbook. Though using OS X, it would be generally be better in wireless networking...because NetZero (the XP wireless network configuration utility) in XP is something that needs to be worked on by Microsoft (disconnects randomly too much). Windows is seriously behind Linux and Mac OS X in the WiFi user experience as of now...hopefully there will be improvement in SP2...
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06-26-2004, 03:24 AM
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| cool, thats awesome. Just awesome  .HAHA I like ur signature... "Error: Keyboard not attached. Please press F1 to continue." LOL a standard dos error? lol HAHA! Now i found a linux compatible networking card hehe
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