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Old July 11th 06, 02:53 PM posted to alt.internet.wireless,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew,rec.radio.amateur.equipment
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Default How to calculate increase of home wireless router range?

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:53:18 +0100, Highland Ham
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One of the locals mentioned doing a bit of "war driving" around town
just for curiosity. About 80 to 90% of the networks heard were
unencrypted AND over half of those _still_used_
the_default_name_and_PW.


Yep ... really bad ... shame on the wireless hardware companies!

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You probably mean 'shame on the users' who haven't got a clue.


No, I mean shame on the wireless hardware companies, as I wrote, for
such a gross disservice to their customers -- it shouldn't be necessary
to be an IT expert to use Wi-Fi safely. It should just work properly.
Otherwise it's not ready for the market.

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