How can i Get Free Internet

orange now own wanadoo and are going to offer free internet to customers with £30+ tariffs.

 

First read about it in PCWORLD as one of the writers was responding to a readers question about "How a restaraunt in his neighborhood was offering free wi-fi connection and he wanted to use it at his house which was like 4 or 5 miles away". The writer was talking about this engineer that wrote a book on how you can access unsecured wifi connections up to 5 miles but I forgot the book or the authors name and I have been lookin all on the web for it.

 

Hmm, ask your library, lol. probably not the sort of thing you should bring attention to. Dunno about 5 miles, but you can easily break into other people's networks one or two houses from you if they're not secured. You can't access their stuff but you can nick their net connection. It's what all the wireless people have to beware of when they set something up.

 

You can build yourself a "Cantena" the original one was made out of a Pringles crisp tube,just Google "Cantena"
You can buy receiver arials that will project/receive wi/fi signals up to 20 miles!

http://www.cantenna.com/
Checkout this Link

 

A pringles tube, and now its $49.95? LOL. Someone knows how to market simple stuff...

 

Does anybody know a program thats searches for wifi networks so then you can connect to them.
i saw them using a program in the gadget show but they wouldn't tell the name of the app

 

Windows is supposed to do that automatically.

 

Just "Google" for Netstumbler

 

no.
one thats lets u hack in to thier network.

 

Here is the article that someone was looking for earlier in this thread.
http://www.micromart.co.uk/default....f8-b1f5-4ffc-a6c8-f567007946de&featureid=3091

 

see I knew I wasn't making this up or just crazy

 

I said it was a Pringles tin,notice the referance to Netstumbler at the bottom of the article

Have fun

 

you can use metconnect, just google it in OR you can use aol and the give you a free 3 months and when you try to cancel they'll beg you not to and give u free aol for another 1-2 months and on and on...

 

No, they'll charge you for months and months and months and not let you go.

 

see that's because you give them a credit card number for them to charge to, when you are signing up they will ask you for payment options n you must choose pay by phone bill, you only get this option if you choose to cancel the installiation at the payment option, put in ur number and then cancel before your

 

Oh I see. Damn, well we got 16 months out of em, and another 11 weeks of downtime after they refused to let us go. Their service is still poor, riddled with holes and uses the worst browser I've ever seen. I'm glad to have found a norml ISP.

 

yea they'll try everything to keep you but if you can get it for frr y not

 

IM1 I would love to know as well. I have a next door neighbor that has a network with WEP/WPA encryption.

 

so if someone had a neighbor with a wireless network and without WEP security, hypothetically speaking, that person could buy a wi-fi card, build a cantena and recieve free internet by piggybacking off their hypothetical neighbor?

 

Hypothecially speaking-yes. But I am more interested in improving the range and power of my network so I can access wi-fi networks that are on T-1 connections such as public libraries but are 5+ miles away from me. I read in PCworld that there is an author that published a book on how to increase your wi-fi capabilities 10 folds beyond even N specifications.