Happy First Monday of Spring

cd34 · 2009-03-23, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by NY Jester

down by the riverfront for a free wifi signal

If your wifi card has an external antenna, or, you are reasonably good with electronics you could make an external antenna. google for 'pringles can wifi' or similar searches. Range is not one of wifi's real strengths. You might see if you can get one of the data plans with your local cellular company. If you use Verizon, Sprint or AT&T, I know you can get decent speeds on their networks. You wouldn't want to be uploading a ton of content, but, for emails/web its fairly workable.

Remember, the first spammers built RVs and Boats full of PCs so they could spam through wifi at coffee shops and marinas. So, you might do a little surveying to pick your location.

Well, ton of wasted work this weekend when the library that claims to support multithreaded access, doesn't. One sentence in their documentation says: 'threads are bad' -- which translates to -- we couldn't figure it out, so, we will say it is bad and we don't have to properly code. But, I guess that is what testing is for.

Have a great Monday everyone.

NY Jester · 2009-03-23, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by cd34

Remember, the first spammers built RVs and Boats full of PCs so they could spam through wifi at coffee shops and marinas. So, you might do a little surveying to pick your location.

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Well mission accomplished. I went down to the riverfront - where there are probably 25 shops, spas, marinas, restaurants and bars and wouldnt ya know about half of them have WiFi - actually 3 of them offer free WiFi hotspots so I dont feel like Im taking something that isnt mine.

Today was a good day so far. I love when a plan comes together.

MeatPounder · 2009-03-23, 05:29 PM

One advantage about owning a condo, there are always several fools in the neighborhood that do not use encryption on their networks

Quote:

Originally Posted by NY Jester

Well mission accomplished. I went down to the riverfront - where there are probably 25 shops, spas, marinas, restaurants and bars and wouldnt ya know about half of them have WiFi - actually 3 of them offer free WiFi hotspots so I dont feel like Im taking something that isnt mine.

Today was a good day so far. I love when a plan comes together.