Thread: WIFI CONNECTION MANAGERS (mini review)

Originally Posted by liquid_smoke

wow someone actually found the password. Kind of dosent matter anymore though, after a few months of using the app it wanted me to start paying for it with a tmobile wifi account or something.

Yup, after 3 months it shutdown and ask you to pay for. I don't know what to pay for the software or t-mobile hotspot.

there must be a h4cked/cr4cked version somewhere on the Net, pretty much everything else has been covered

Originally Posted by justintime

I checked the skin structure, and it is quite complex... not worth my time!

This program can do the job unlike others that aren't touch friendly. I will make a skin for it.

You may want to take a look at www.wifihopper.com also. It finds all open networks and automatically connects to the best open one. No configuration is necessary. It's not touchscreen friendly, but that's not a problem because no configuration is necessary. I've been using it and it works great. The only problem is that it's $35, though you can get it for half that if you qualify for an academic discount.

I gave this a try.. I think the mode we want is 'Network Hopping', right? So it autoconnects...

The problem is that every time I quit and start it back up, it defaults to the 'Network Scanning' mode.

How are you using this?

Originally Posted by kbreeden

You may want to take a look at www.wifihopper.com also. It finds all open networks and automatically connects to the best open one. No configuration is necessary. It's not touchscreen friendly, but that's not a problem because no configuration is necessary. I've been using it and it works great. The only problem is that it's $35, though you can get it for half that if you qualify for an academic discount.

Originally Posted by justintime

I gave this a try.. I think the mode we want is 'Network Hopping', right? So it autoconnects...

The problem is that every time I quit and start it back up, it defaults to the 'Network Scanning' mode.

How are you using this?

Yes, you want to use Network Hopping mode. You can tell the program to always start in Network Hopping mode. I don't have access to the program right now to tell you the exact place to go, but if you go into options or settings and look around you'll see the setting. Let me know if you can't find it and I'll tell you where it is once I get back to my carputer.

I embedded it in CF and just keep it running in Network Hopper mode in the background. Once it finds an open, unsecured network it connects automatically. It works quite well.

Thanks kbreeden, I will look again closely!

One thing about using Hopping mode: I think (not confirmed) that if I use this mode, then it will NOT connect to my home network which has WEP encryption. According to the manual, the net hopping mode tried to conect to open unsecured networks....

So, it's a dilemma... I want it to conect to open nets, but I also want it to connect to MY network!

Originally Posted by justintime

Thanks kbreeden, I will look again closely!

One thing about using Hopping mode: I think (not confirmed) that if I use this mode, then it will NOT connect to my home network which has WEP encryption. According to the manual, the net hopping mode tried to conect to open unsecured networks....

So, it's a dilemma... I want it to conect to open nets, but I also want it to connect to MY network!

JIT, you are correct that in hopping mode it will only connect to unsecured networks. If you want to connect to your home network just switch to connection manager mode and it will allow you to manually connect to home.

Well, I spent 10 mins looking at options dialogs etc, and I see no way to have it start in Hopping mode.