Hello,

Posted by Extravisual on Aug. 30, 2010, 6:38 p.m.

My name is Travis, and I am an internet addict.

Enough said?

No? Okay fine. Basically when I got my internet taken away, I took an old shitty wireless adapter I had and shoved it in the side of a can and pointed it in the general direction of the wireless network. Lo and behold, it worked. Barely any signal and shit reliability, but hey, internets. This morning I couldn't get connected with only my can, so I modified it. Yay!

Edit: I tweaked it a bit and managed to get TWO WHOLE BARS. OMG.

Comments

eagly 14 years, 2 months ago

Or using a friend's beer to assist you in falling over in said road.

Cesque 14 years, 2 months ago

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It was "taken away" when the guy who owned the original antenna left for the winter. I am getting it from the same network as before. Just weaker since, well, yeah. Makeshift antenna.

Ah. :D

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This is off a neighbor. It is legal so long as they do not have protection. If I had to crack my way past WEP or WPA2 or something, then I would be breaking the law.

Make sure they never ask what the can hanging outside of your window is for.

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This is more of a "leaving your pint of beer on the table while you go to the toilet". If you leave your pint there, unprotected, you run the risk of your friends either tampering with it, or drinking all/some of it.

Or, to use my favourite metaphor, reading a newspaper over someone's shoulder.

Leyenda 14 years, 2 months ago

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It's not quite the same, but I think it's a better example than stealing from someone's home.
Agreed. Home stealing was just "hyperbole"to make point.

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Or, to use my favourite metaphor, reading a newspaper over someone's shoulder.
Bad example. No matter how many other people read over his shoulder, the owner never loses the ability to read his own paper.

But in this case, its possible his neighbor could hit monthly bandwidth limits because of his stealing.

No matter how you cut it, stealing from your own neighbor is low. Steal from microsoft and we may look the other way. But from your own neighbor? That's low man.

Extravisual 14 years, 2 months ago

If that is the issue then I should be set. The local ISP's don't have bandwidth caps, and I only do my resource-intensive operations during the late night, so there's no way they'd notice it slow down.

But I don't care, I'm a pirate. Arrrr.

Leyenda 14 years, 2 months ago

Well,if there no bandwidth cap I agree it's not that hurtful to your neighbor.

Look, I'm not saying your evil. Still, its little sleazy that's all.

Clever… but a bit sleazy. Arrrg. So if your neighbor sees your antenna aimed at his window, just tell him you'r doing a security check for the local ISP.

EDIT: and tell him his security is fine… just fine. whistle…

Scott_AW 14 years, 2 months ago

The only one who crys are the internet providers. And they can suck it. Arrr.

Zarniwooop 14 years, 2 months ago

My bandwidth limit is 5GB… It's, pretty annoying to say the least.

Scott_AW 14 years, 2 months ago

Limits, bah.

Bryan 14 years, 2 months ago

Can you make one for me too? :D

Scott_AW 14 years, 2 months ago

You should put that on that i-fixed-it site.