What is the law concerning using your neighbor's network connection? ie, what law are you breaking when your XP machine connects to his linksys network?
on 1/4/03 11:13 PM, Henri Yandell at bayard at generationjava.com wrote: > > Yet another reason why XP sucketh. > > I tweaked the driver for the wireless card, and finally got it to start > connecting to a wireless router. Surely you can imagine my elation and > excitement as I found a working Internet! > > Except... well... why is the router named 'linksys'?? > > Yes. Windows XP will not connect to MY netgear router, but it will happily > [when I'm walking in the right part of the house] connect to my > neighbour's Linksys network. In fact, as I had DHCP turned on, Windows XP > happily just broke the law for me. > > To make it worse, even though I know the unsecured Linksys network is > there next door, there's no obvious way to avoid connecting to it. > > The Apple machines in the house however are happily still working. > > -1 to Microsoft for making it automatic to invade my neighbours network. > > Hen > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. Harry, Harry Jacobson-Beyer Surveyor of the Passing Scene! http://bellsouthpwp.net/h/a/harryjb/ What a strange, long, trip it is! remember: it's not how fast you climb the hill that matters, it's how fast you go coming down! | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
