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In reply to the discussion: Please consider opening your WiFi for others. [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)24. I get my wifi from nearly 3/4 of a mile away and I share that connection with my next door neighbor
Set up my router with DD WRT and configured it as a repeater, one of the two antennas is a high gain directional to pick up the distant signal and the other antenna is an omni for local use.
My own wifi access is due to a barter arrangement I have with a neighbor a good bit further away.
My printer on the other hand is a very old HP that's remarkably cheap to operate (large refillable ink tanks) but has to be fed paper one sheet at at time by hand because the pickup rollers are all dried out and hardened. I don't print much so it's not a big deal to me.
I kind of like the idea of Daihinia, an open system that allows any Windows computer with wifi enabled to relay the open signal..
http://daihinia.com/
Daihinia is a tool for WiFi. It turns a simple Ad-Hoc network into a Multi-hop Ad-Hoc network. Multi-hop Ad-Hoc networks offer a higher level of flexibility than the usual Infrastructure Mode: in Infrastructure Mode all the computers have to be in the range of the Access Point, while in Multi-hop Ad-Hoc networks they have to be within one another's range, possibly forming chains longer than one hop.
Basically, Daihinia offers a Mesh Network layer for WiFi Ad-Hoc (IBSS) networks, making the network infrastructure be implicitly maintained by the users themselves. It's a nice idea that a network user supports the network around him/her just by the fact that he/she uses the network.
Unlike other solutions that allow mesh topology only between Access Points, Daihinia uses IBSS Mode and adds mesh functionality directly to computers, and does not use Access Points at all. Daihinia is implemented as an intermediate network driver for Windows systems and is completely transparent to the programs.
Basically, Daihinia offers a Mesh Network layer for WiFi Ad-Hoc (IBSS) networks, making the network infrastructure be implicitly maintained by the users themselves. It's a nice idea that a network user supports the network around him/her just by the fact that he/she uses the network.
Unlike other solutions that allow mesh topology only between Access Points, Daihinia uses IBSS Mode and adds mesh functionality directly to computers, and does not use Access Points at all. Daihinia is implemented as an intermediate network driver for Windows systems and is completely transparent to the programs.
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WPA/WPA2 is generally quite secure, but if WPS is enabled they found a hack for it.
joshcryer
Nov 2012
#81
If you want to take that risk it's fine by me but I won't and my lawyer does not work for free
Jersey Devil
Nov 2012
#16
"Demonstrating" your innocence might mean having every computer, smart phone...
Silent3
Nov 2012
#23
You trust a SWAT team executing a 5 a.m. search warrant for your devices...
Earth_First
Nov 2012
#34
you do realize you have to go to jail first before you go to court to "demonstrate"
datasuspect
Nov 2012
#94
thank you for a most excellent, and thoughtful, idea. this is what being a community is all about.
niyad
Nov 2012
#13
That's real nice but it won't protect you from all the problems that they spoke of in posts above.
xtraxritical
Nov 2012
#27
I get my wifi from nearly 3/4 of a mile away and I share that connection with my next door neighbor
Fumesucker
Nov 2012
#24
Try some "Son of A Gun" on your rollers, maybe a lite coat of rubber cement.
xtraxritical
Nov 2012
#30
Are there any specific resources you would recommend for the uninitiated to begin learning?
Incitatus
Nov 2012
#63
I do that for one of the renters next door. She's a law student at my alma, and
msanthrope
Nov 2012
#48
Thank goodness for my like minded neighbors -they have one SSID up for them, and another SSID marked
HipChick
Nov 2012
#68
I honestly wouldn't expect that from you. I'm very happy to have been wrong.
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#79