How many Wi-Fi networks can you 'see'?

[twistedAM]

Eight - up a couple in the past few months. All locked.

 

[skyscraper101]

I've got 9 including me here in me flat halfway between Shepherds Bush and Olympia.

All of them are protected except for one guy called 'Adam' and the hotel opposite me which you can connect to but they have a pre paid-for password system for guests which I don't know how to hack into... yet.

Once when I was 'accessing' an unsecured wifi, I logged into the router and updated the firmware. I'm sure they would've thanked me.

 

[chooch]

Seven; one unprotected (the one I'm borrowing now).

 

[Throbbing Angel]

10 with 1 unsecured.

Anyone got any interesting names other people have named their wifi. I've got one called Massive Dongs.

I can see 5 including my own, which is the only unlocked connection on the street after reading this

There are 6 cottages and 5 wifi networks-welcome to the 21st

daftest name is WindyHill

we don't live on a hill

 

[rhod]

6 including mine which I've labelled "Dow Corning Ltd" - even though the Dow Corning site is about a mile away. Gives the neighbours something to be paranoid about ("fuckin hell - they've got a whopper of a WiFi signal pumping out")

 

[marty21]

8 including mine - i unsecure, but that's btopenzone

 

[Lazy Llama]

From this thread of a year and a bit ago:-

Sitting in my living room, I can currently pick up 36 different wireless networks.

8 of those are not secured.

In my last place I could pick up 8 networks.

I think it's probably about the same now.
Can't get to my home machine at the moment to check.

 

[editor]

From this thread of a year and a bit ago:-


I think it's probably about the same now.
Can't get to my home machine at the moment to check.

Yeah, but you live in a radar dish.

 

[Lazy Llama]

Yeah, but snooping on the neighbours in Alpha Centauri means I get first dibs on the alien porn

 

[stdPikachu]

It varies depending on the time of day because not all the routers are on all the time, but I once left aircrack-ng running on my laptop whilst I was at work. From memory, about this many;

Three with WPA2, one of which has a hidden SSID (mine)
Five with WPA, one of which has a hidden SSID
Six with WEP, four of which are BT home hubs. I cracked two of these for a larf once just to see if it was possible (don't worry, never connected to the network), both of which used the HH serial number. Another two netgear units used the default factory-set value I found on some site somewhere
Two unencrypted, one of which has a hidden SSID

 

[Roadkill]

And another mate calls his GET OFF MY LAN!

Normally there are four or five round here, including one called 'JesusIsLord!'

 

[sojourner]

3 including mine at home, all protected

in one site at work about 7, 2 unprotected

 

[bmd]

Just me, but then there's only two other houses, two farms and the sea within a mile of here.

 

[ymu]

4 all secured - one of which is my brothers which i have the password for. It's called: 80gb in 40 days? Fuck off!

after he kindly let people use it only for some fool to abuse it and cause his ISP to cut his bandwidth.

I had an new one appear called "Get your own bandwidth, cunt!" It always annoyed me a bit as I was never trying to steal his bandwidth, but this explanation makes me feel better about it.

2-7 around here, depending on what room I'm in and the time of day.

 

[jonead]

5 sometimes 4

1 unsecured, which is mine, but I think everyone should follow the sharing principle, lock your box, and open the access point.

I actually run an open network for a number of reasons
-I cant be bothered to set up access for overnight guests and other visitors
-I explicitly allow a neighbour to share
-I dont think classic WEP, that some of my hardware is, is at all secure. 5 minutes searching on google will show you how to break into pretty much any WEP secured WAP, 64 bit or 128 bit
-Knowing the net is open forces me to lock down the boxes better. All firewalled, no SMB connectivity (SSH/SCP to the server only).

i have a bit of basic traffic shaping to ensure that i still have _some_ bandwidth left

i'm also somewhat unconvinced that the nefarious types of N12 are fapping off to bambi, stealing my porn passwords or reading my email.

my router - which _is_ secured - tells me that im the only connection in 15 months anyway.

 

[pooka]

14 + me mid-way between Brixton and Clapham centres, 1 unlocked

 

[lenny101]

My brothers wireless network is called 'don't use my wireless Michael'.

He doesn't know a Michael.

 

[quimcunx]

We should play LAN tag. take screen captures and post them up here and see if we can work our way round Brixton....... and the World!

 

[innit]

10 plus me, including "nutbeam", "dunno" and "ThePirateShip"

 

[stdPikachu]

We should play LAN tag. take screen captures and post them up here and see if we can work our way round Brixton....... and the World!

Bet you I can get to Kevin Bacon's SSID in less than seventy nethops