I have never connected to their access point. My printer is connected to my wired network so there is no chance they could connect to it. I didn't try to print the neighbor's printer and they stayed on my menu for only a minute or two.
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Jeff Newmiller <[email protected]>wrote: > Can you elaborate on that, or provide a link? AFAIK you have to, at some > point, configure your printer to use your access point (router), which they > should find difficult to do (certainly unintentionally). Alternatively, you > could have set up their network access point as an alternative to your own > on your computer, and your computer could have connected there instead of > to your own access point if it had difficulty with your AP this morning. > Once identified by your computer as usable printers, that information might > be retained even after your computer reconnects to your own network. So, > are they usable? > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... > DCN:<[email protected]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live > Go... > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > Tony Cratz <[email protected]> wrote: > > >On 04/23/2012 12:41 PM, Richard Harke wrote: > >> This morning when I went to print something, the print menu showed > >two > >> extra printers that apparently belong to a neighbor. Since my wi-fi > >is > >> secured with WPA2, if even if the neighbors isn't, how is this > >possible? > > > > When trying to print, what are you using? A desktop or a laptop? > > And is there a WiFi card on the item (laptop?). > > > > If so you are receiving the info directly to your laptop without > > it going through your router. > > > > > > Tony > >_______________________________________________ > >vox-tech mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech >
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