Not my wireless LAN???
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Well there I was working on the laptop last night not connected to anything when I accidentally click on my web browser. Lo and Behold, PistonHeads pops up!
Odd I think, it must be cached so I CTRL+F5 and it's still current, go in to the forums and there are new messages.
So I go to my email programme and recieve new mails, very strange. So I look in My Networks and see another user - I've picked up his wireless LAN, must be a neighbour.
Question is, fine I canuse his
but what about when I plug my laptop into my broadband connection? Will it use my connection to connect to the internet (and probably more importantly my connection to VPN into my works server) or his wireless because it will have recognised it before I used my own connection?
Also should I try to find out who it is and do the good thing or should I not bother and borrow his wireless link for when I want to move around a bit?
Odd I think, it must be cached so I CTRL+F5 and it's still current, go in to the forums and there are new messages.
So I go to my email programme and recieve new mails, very strange. So I look in My Networks and see another user - I've picked up his wireless LAN, must be a neighbour.
Question is, fine I canuse his
but what about when I plug my laptop into my broadband connection? Will it use my connection to connect to the internet (and probably more importantly my connection to VPN into my works server) or his wireless because it will have recognised it before I used my own connection? Also should I try to find out who it is and do the good thing or should I not bother and borrow his wireless link for when I want to move around a bit?
You should be able to disable the wireless connection you're picking up. Not sure how in Windows, but it shouldn't be too hard.
It'll almost certainly be an immediate neighbour. If you're in flats, this could be a pain, but wireless connections don't travel that far.
Up to you whether you tell him/her.
If you have your own wireless network, you can force your card to only pick up that particular network. You should also name it appropriately, and secure it with a password.
It'll almost certainly be an immediate neighbour. If you're in flats, this could be a pain, but wireless connections don't travel that far.
Up to you whether you tell him/her.
If you have your own wireless network, you can force your card to only pick up that particular network. You should also name it appropriately, and secure it with a password.
murph7355 said:
You should be able to disable the wireless connection you're picking up. Not sure how in Windows, but it shouldn't be too hard.
Yes indeed but I use it at the various offices of ours I visit so don't really want to have to keep switching it on and off.
murph7355 said:
It'll almost certainly be an immediate neighbour. If you're in flats, this could be a pain, but wireless connections don't travel that far.
Up to you whether you tell him/her.
Not in flats but one of those trendy 80's fill a field type places. I'm not particularly bothered about telling them it could prove useful if I want to go wandering.
murph7355 said:
If you have your own wireless network, you can force your card to only pick up that particular network. You should also name it appropriately, and secure it with a password.
Exactly. Helpfully he has named his 'Geoff' but has protected it as I doubled clicked on his name but it wouldn't let me in.
Can I ping him a message? I was only half way through the Gassing Station when he switched it off last night
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