Three Week Hobby Blog: May 11, 2003 - May 17, 2003 Archives
I really got a kick out of this guy's blog. It reminded me so much of my neighbor. I was out on my patio with my laptop (before the days of "g" when all we had was this weak ol' 802.11b stuff. Anyway, when I went to go log onto my system, I got a weak signal indication so I changed chairs on the patio set and poof!!! I was in. There really wasn't much to do other than figure out why my connection was not able to map to my server. Well about 10 seconds into the process, I figured it out, I was logged into a neighbor's wireless network.

Now I am not a mean person or anything so as opposed to browsing and seeing what I could change on their network (or just delete); I figured, I am only going to surf the web so they won't mind a little downgrade of speed. Anyway, I have thought long and hard about whether to tell this person about it but I figure -- hell, why should I ruin a perfectly good setup for me.

Hopefully by now, he at least has a WEP key installed, but he is an end user, not a hobbiest, and certainly not a professional.