Open Wireless AP...find the owner?

[Phoenician]

Yeah, what part of town are you in?  What's the SSID?
As Bill said, I want to make sure it isn't mine.

Thanks,

Michienne

ps: What games are you looking to play?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Matt Graham
> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 10:43 AM
> To: 'Jonathan Hutchins'; kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: RE: Open Wireless AP...find the owner?
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> I'm thinking this is some guys in my neighborhood.  I can tell it's a
> linksys router, and it's using a Roadrunner connection.  I get a
> 192.168.1.* IP.  I get full strength connection, so I'm thinking he's
> got to be close.    I found this AP with netstumbler in the first place.
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> I'm not looking to say "Ha!  Your network sucks" and I doubt he is
> trying to call the police or anything.  I just want to help him get this
> network secured.  Maybe share a connection with him or something....play
> some games?  Get him on my WASTE network?  You know...just to fool
> around.
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> Hmmm....There IS a little strip center near here...about 1000 yards
> away.  There used to be an internet café there...and there are a few
> small businesses.  Seems a bit far to get such a good connection,
> especially on a linksys / roadrunner setup.
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> Hmm..
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Jonathan Hutchins
> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 4:31 AM
> To: Matt G; kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Open Wireless AP...find the owner?
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> On Saturday 12 July 2003 04:48 am, Matt G wrote:
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> > installed netstumbler just to make sure I couldn't find my ap like
> that.
> > Mine didn't show up, which is good, but I found 2 others.  One seems
> to be
> > protected, but one of them is totally open.  I can get an ip and get
> online
> > etc.
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> What part of town are you in?  What IP did you get?  There's some kind
> of AP
> near me that kept puting out an address for eth1.9 for some reason -
> appeared
> to be blocking my own AP.
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> Then again it could be me - I saw some shady indications that my DLink
> WAP was
> willing to run open even after I had locked it down.
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