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Wireless Network

  • 08-09-2006 6:24pm
    #1
    Bateman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,818 ✭✭✭


    G604T_WIRELESS

    Am connected to this network, says it is unsecured and configured for open access.

    Have a new laptop with this wireless card: Intel ProWireless 2200 802.11b/g Mini PCI Wireless LAN Card. Have registered for eircom broadband but still waiting on wireless modem to be delivered. Didn't think I could connect to any wireless network without a wireless modem. :confused:


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  • #2
    PowerHouseDan
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    Could be your nieghbours wirelessBB


  • #3
    Bateman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,818 ✭✭✭Bateman


    That is what I am guessing. AFAIK eircom have a protected, but many of their competitors don't.


  • #4
    Foxwood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,491 ✭✭✭Foxwood


    Bateman wrote:
    G604T_WIRELESS

    Am connected to this network, says it is unsecured and configured for open access.

    Have a new laptop with this wireless card: Intel ProWireless 2200 802.11b/g Mini PCI Wireless LAN Card. Have registered for eircom broadband but still waiting on wireless modem to be delivered. Didn't think I could connect to any wireless network without a wireless modem. :confused:
    You don't use a "wireless modem" to connect to a wireless network, you use a "wireless modem" to allow a wireless laptop (which you do have) to connect to a broadband network.

    Your laptop has found someone elses wireless modem operating in your vicinity - it shouldn't be that much of a surprise, as there are 10's of thousands of people out there with "wireless modems" and some of them are bound to be unsecured.


  • #5
    Foxwood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,491 ✭✭✭Foxwood


    Bateman wrote:
    AFAIK eircom have a protected, but many of their competitors don't.
    It's got nothing to do with eircom, or their competitors. It's extremely unlikely that "G604T_WIRELESS" belongs to a competitor of eircoms. It belongs to one of your neighbours who has bought a DLink G604T DSL wireless router and (presumably) plugged it into his broadband connection. It doesn't really matter who is supplying his broadband connection, the DLink G604T wasn't supplied by the broadband provider.


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