If my neighbor has a wireless router..
 

..can I share (borrow, use, steal, whatever..) his connection?

Can he stop me from using it when he finds out?

Is it even possible?

I mean if there was a whole block of houses all having wireless connections, couldn't I just walk along the front of the houses with my laptop and just release and renew (or 'repair' for Win XP) every 50 ft?

Just wondering...

i believe the router and card calibrate on an unique frequency.

if it's a standard wireless home router with 802.11b then all u need is a 802.11b nic. can't wait until every I go I can be connectec.

If you are close enough & he doesnt have it password protected then you should be able to use it.

All your neighbour would have to do is use an encrypted signal. If you go downtown New York, you can usually connect so someone's wireless lan. :)

Cheers,
Matt

you'll most likely be able to connect as long as they aren't using encryption. they could kick you off sure, each AP has a different feature set. some allow you to limit who can connect by mac address or limit the number of dhcp leases or whatever. in general people just set them up using the defaults which are as unrestrictive as possible to keep support calls down.

Thats Classic!!!

In the router you can setup an SSID. Everyone on the network has to know what the SSID is to be on the network. If your neighbor didn't set that up then your free to leech his bandwidth.

Although you would have to be within 300ft to partake.

I know if your neighbor is using a SMC wireless router he can see the IP address of all connected computers to his LAN, wired or not.

bah you can easily get around that kind of shit http://www.netstumbler.com/

don't know about wireless... but my router... I had to set each computer up... and needed the password and IP for the router
and a bunch of other shit..... and on my main computer I had
control... could see every computer on.....

If I were you I'd be very carefull.... He might be a dumb ass...
and soon you'd have bot's, Virus's and all kinds.... of shit happening to your computer....:2 cents:

But I must admit you are thinking.....:thumbsup

Hahaha, that is true, and it's also true that unless you encrypt anyone can grab hold of it.

try it and tell us wat happens...

i am curious to find out

if its not set up right he probably doesnt know his ass from the stigmata anyway, most likely wont notice anything. but for anyone with a brain is very eazy to see everyone using your ap, yes. this is illegal and piracy and what not and we hate all that so dont do it :thumbsup thx

What kind of card do you have? Everytime I try to freeload a signal downtown my card starts flashing. Then I have to reset the paramaters on my computer to make my card work again.

Please tell me what card you used or exactly what area you were in.

Thanks man!

I'm using a 3Com Wireless XJack adapter. One of the settings available in the driver software is 'Attach to any WLAN Service Area Automatically', which basically autodetects the SSID. Now, if he's using WEP, no connection for you. But if not, and if he's using DHCP, you're in easy.

Do a search on ebay for 'xjack wireless'. Get the kind with the retractable antenna -- they're closing for around $70 or so. muy nice.

it's called "wardriving" - basically grab a signal and obtain a dhcp license. go to a metropolitan area and knock your socks off. some friends did it one day and got into at least 15 networks. people haven't realized how easy it is yet.

just wait for a big name hack and people will freak out. everyone should start training in wireless lan security, it'll be easy consulting bucks soon..:2 cents:

absolutely - we do that with the apartments accross from our office for some of our employees.. you can even get a repeater to make the signal stronger

I read an article recently, where some tech guys basically went through a metropolitan area looking for unsecure networks for large businesses. They were simply amazed at the stuff they had access to, that was highly sensitive.

a repeater violate some FCC regulations as well as an amplifier. Watch out. But you can always use a directional anthena and point it out carefully to where the access point is and get the signal from miles away.