Comments on: Wireless Repeater with a Linksys WET11

By: ConcernedParent

ConcernedParent — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:49:56 +0000

My 17 year old is not sleeping enough because the allure of the internet working on her laptop in her room (socializing, watching tv shows) is just too strong. She’s tired all the time and her grades are slipping.
I’m interested in finding a sneaky way to cause the signal to be weaker at some times to drive her out of her room and in with the rest of her family, and even better if I had a timer to make the internet more difficult after 2am, to make her get some sleep. Any tips? I tried putting the router on a timer, and she discovered it (hard to hide it well enough), I even tried putting pots and pans over the router to see if it would weaken signal (didn’t). Her computer is 50′ from the router..
She has a Macbook with Airport, and I can’t change the parental control feature on it because the parameters are too limiting for a sr. in hs with all her homework related internet needs. Thanks for your help!

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By: 2Cert

2Cert — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:23:21 +0000

If someone is stupid enough to not secure their connection then they should be charged for the crime of public stupidity! I have several in my neighborhood that fits this. Don’t use their connections since mine is faster but it’s hard to out power all the shitty connections surrounding me!

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By: jake

jake — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:37:14 +0000

xD i love America! My DSL was out for a month and my neighbors kindly “donated” their 6mb/400kbs connection. thinking about doing this and using my 768/128 DSL as backup! Oh and the only thing verizon is good for now in my books is MAYBE FiOS cause their dsl tech support sucks

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By: Cmills

Cmills — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:22:24 +0000

I work for an ISP. It is responsibility of the user to secure their network. Just like if we get a spamming complaint. Even if the user has no knowledge of the activity, they are still going to be shut off if they don’t take care of it. If someone plays the radio really loud and you can hear it too, you aren’t stealing their music.

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By: GreatJoerb

GreatJoerb — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:21:00 +0000

Ok. I’m a computer novice. What is an SSID? I hope I don’t fan the flames too much, but I just moved and I have to stick my computer out the window to get that lovely public wireless that we all love (almost all). I’m in a shady neihborhood in NYC and would like to avoid sticking my ibook G4 out the window for exteded periods. I’m on the ground floor so it is very visible. Anyway, I almost fully understand everything about the hook up, but can’t I just get a repeater and stick it out my window.Will this even work with Apple’s Airport extreme? Help, please.

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By: Bart

Bart — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:45:53 +0000

Back to the original question… Any recommendations for wireless repeaters that work across vendors? I have a Netgear wireless router, and the signal will not reach my whole house. Best I can tell, Netgear does not sell a repeater, and I’d like to avoid replacing my existing equipment.

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By: anonytotheextreme

anonytotheextreme — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:10:30 +0000

well its still a retarded thing to do.

heres my take on the subject….

BUY YOUR OWN WIRELESS ROUTER!!!!

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By: Nectovelius

Nectovelius — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 03:43:44 +0000

Ralph, tony neibhor is sharing is kindly sharing his network with everybody (he just doesn’t know) but legally tony did not hack the guy, did not even crack a password. The network is shared willingly (even if he doesn’t know) the guy has all the control over it so if he doesn’t wanna share he just have to protect it. If my bag of chips says help yourself, take a chip…I can’t blame you for taking one. And remenber those who are ignorant are always WRONG, so too bad for the guy that doesn’t know is sharing the net…

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By: Ralph

Ralph — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:39:04 +0000

To pdawg: To paraphrase you: “man you are dumb”. The situation that you are describing is the willing sharing of your ISP. What Tony is describing is his unapproved sharing of someone elses’ ISP. Can you see the difference? If I buy a bag a chips, I can let you have as many as I want. If you buy a big a chips, I can’t take your chips without asking. Is that clear enough? (Why is it always that the people who call others “dumb” are always the dumb ones?)

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By: pdawg

pdawg — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:35:15 +0000

Its totally legit.. man some of you are dumb.. I even e-mailed the major ISP here to see if its legit to share the internet with neighbours.. and they say its legit as long as you aren’t charging for it.. then its good..

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