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  1. 04-28-2002, 07:47 PM #1
    LoreleiGuy
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    I just checked my email from my car

    It didn't go exactly as planned, but it was pretty neat.

    I was trying to get my wireless adapter in my car to talk to the wireless adapter on my desktop to synchronize files. I've done this before, and it worked fine. This time, I couldn't get a connection, so I tried playing around with the settings on the car adapter.

    I set it to "infrastructure" rather than "ad-hoc" and searched. And found an access point that wasn't my computer. Well hell, connect and see what happens. Woo! fire up IE, go to yahoo mail. I checked my email from my car.

    I didn't have any.
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  2. 04-29-2002, 09:59 AM #2
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    LOL...Sounds like one of your neighbours has an open access point...The nice thing to do would be to warn them...
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  3. 04-29-2002, 10:22 AM #3
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    Yes, that would be the nice thing to do, but I have no idea who has the access point. I do know that I could not find it from my desktop system. I guess I could try some sort of musical chairs parking lot triangulation, but I'm not that concerned.
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  4. 04-29-2002, 12:04 PM #4
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    yahoo mail you say, doesn't it suck that they stopped free pop3 forwarding?! i hate'm right now..
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  5. 04-29-2002, 05:50 PM #5
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    You may be able to find port sniffers out there. Basically, something that can detect computers and get information about them - shared folders, computer name, ip addresses, etc.

    Not that I know about these, of course...
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  6. 04-29-2002, 06:21 PM #6
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    I've looked for sniffers/stumblers. There's netstumbler which would be great, except that it doesn't support prismII based network cards, which is what I have.

    Then there's APsniff which does, but only runs on windows 2000 and XP.

    So basically, I'm out of luck in that department.
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  7. 04-30-2002, 02:24 PM #7
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    I have my sprint pcs phone hooked up via serial and have a 14.4 connection every where I go! And in the next few months I will have a data connection of 30-64k and in the next few months/years it could reach up to 3mbps! sweet!
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  8. 04-30-2002, 02:34 PM #8
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    Aye sir, and ye pay through the nose, too.
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