[ale] OT: Wireless access points?

[James P. Kinney III]

So imagine a wireless world where every &^#$% gizmo in your house is
babbling to some access point and all of your neighbors are set up the
same. Now picture that nightmare in a high-density Post apartment
complex as your neighbors fridge tells your server to order milk every
day they are out of town!

Cat5e cable at Home Depot is $55/1000' box.

On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 19:52, Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> Somewhat off-topic, but maybe amusing: last week I set
> my wife up with a Linux laptop, and while doing so
> I discovered that when I booted the machine in our
> bedroom it wouldn't talk on the network, though everything
> was fine if I booted it next to the access point and
> then *carried* it into the bedroom. The access
> point was literally only about ten feet away from the bed,
> but on the other side of the wall and down a story.
> Still should be easily in range.
> 
> Eventually I figured out that in the bedroom, the
> WaveLAN card was acquiring its DHCP address
> from somebody else's server - I could actually
> surf the Internet, and telnet to this mysterious
> server, too! (Though I could not log in, since they
> had apparently chosen some fiendishly clever
> password that I was incapable of guessing in three
> tries.)
> 
> The solution, in case anyone else has this sort of
> issue, was to set the SSID (kind of like a network
> name, I guess) for the access point and the PC card
> to the same known, non-default value; that forces
> the PC card to only accept service via the access
> point with the matching SSID. On the Linux
> side that was done via module options to the
> wvlan_cs module, and on the access point it was
> done via the AP config utility.
> 
> -- Joe
> 
> Fulton Green wrote:
> > 
> > Now that Wi-Fi's gone "mainstream" (i.e., feature story in Newsweek last
> > week), I was wondering if anyone here knew of any publicly-accessible
> > wireless access points (preferably legit :). I'm assuming I need a
> > WiFi/802.11b card. I know this was asked a few months ago, but I figured
> > there might have been some more adoptions of the technology since then.
> > Specifically:
> > 
> > - Any ATL-area Starbucks or other public food/drink places w/WiFi (or, at
> >   the very least, Ethernet jacks)? The "barrista" at the Va-Hi Starbucks
> >   mentioned they were getting a T3 installed "real soon now" and that it was
> >   "going to kick some serious a**", so maybe some of the local Starbucks are
> >   ramping up for wireless.
> > - Any more details on what Georgia Tech might provide?
> > 
> > And in case anyone was going to suggest it, Innovox Lounge is now closed.
> > 
> > TIA
> > 
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