Wi-Fi what the hell is it? Forums

flyboy

Thanks Pusser,
I will get hold of one of those. It will make life a lot easier.

bsb2000 · NE Rally Co-ordinator

Pusser, Where did you get your Kensington Wifi Finder for £12?

Ian

Anonymous

[quote:f785646d96="bsb2000"]Pusser, Where did you get your Kensington Wifi Finder for £12?

Ian[/quote:f785646d96]

Sorry - didn't take into account the VAT

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=63682

bsb2000 · NE Rally Co-ordinator

Thanks, that's still cheapest I've seen.

Ian

davebl

For any one mobile, which should include this comunity, If you have a laptop I regard the Kensinton WiFi finder essential to see what networks you can access. Legaly of course, rather than hacking in. Many cafe's some Texaco garages already offer the facility for customers. Bear in mind by 2010 the predictions are that we will have 100Mbit WiFi fed with 1000Mbit links so WiFi will be a very usefull comunications technoligy.

I am still really supprised more Caravan sites dont offer WiFi facilitys.

The technical name for WiFi is 802.11 there are various flavours of it a,b and g being most comon. The g variant is faster than b.

In our small village there a a few homes that dont configure their wireless systems well and are accesable to uninvited guests so if you have WiFi at lease put in a username and password to keep your system safe. Also if you have it use WEP which can prevent the hacker if they haunt your neighbour hood.

Dave

Telbell

Thanks flyboy for original question-=and to contributors for responses- most useful to me (for the future)

sallytrafic · Campsite DB Admin

Important before you all rush out to utilise someone elses WiFi broadband connection be warned:

"A recent court case, which saw a West London man fined £500 and sentenced to 12 months' conditional discharge for hijacking a wireless broadband connection, has repercussions for almost every user of wi-fi networks."

That from the BBC

Frank

Telbell

I'd be interestred in Pam n Pete's comments on that
Does that mean these Kentucky things are no use then??

SymSeek

WiFi consists of two devices.Oneplugs into a laptop and the other plugs into a desk top PC.
The desk top connects to the internet via broadband.The device at the desk top acts as a two way broadcast and receiver device and 'speaks' to the laptop sometimes up to 500mtrs away.
Here is how I use it. I switch on my laptop with the device pulgged in it seeks for and identifies the master in the vicinity. I connect to it and hey presto I am on the internet....good Luck Paul

davebl

Should anyone not feel thay have a full life to lead or wish to run some extended or clandestine WiFi networks, say one motor home to another motor home (stationary) of course. Well I say than but some bright spark will no doubt try to get this to work on the move too. There are some interesting WiFi ariel technoligies here.

http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html

http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html

http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448

I ahve been very impressed by the users of this sites inginuity so im am sure this technoligy will be put to good us here.

I am reliably told someone has this working with the 'pringle tin' variant of ariel from one side of the Severn estuary to the other. The web site above says over 10 miles is possible !!!!