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To: nnillionaire who wrote (66703)12/13/2004 2:26:36 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (2) of 77400
 
if you use linksys, just click on the "site survey" tab (the middle tab) on your notebook adapter utility tool, and look at the different SSIDs and their signal.

I used to have just my signal, which I called "linksys" and it was always 100%. NOW, I have a bunch of signals on there which are weaker, one is my street name and some other names. These are other peoples wireless networks on my block I guess. If mine is ever out, I can piggyback on everybody else I suppose.

I once asked a geek friend of mine why nobody uses security on these wifi home systems and he said that the key when these were first rolled out was simplicity. Computers and esp networks are way too geeklike to be used by the average family, so they assumed almost no security on these.
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